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...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...But Alisal has been operating on 10,500 acres in the gorgeous rolling hills north-west of Santa Barbara since 1946, when it opened to just 30 guests for the summer....
...Puig is purchasing a majority stake in a high-end German “molecular cosmetics” brand, Dr Barbara Sturm, extending a run of deals including a majority stake in Charlotte Tilbury, which valued the UK cosmetics...
...In 1959, Labour MP Barbara Castle accused Harold Macmillan’s Tory government of “Teddy-boy economics” — in other words, inherently criminal....
...“I see less obstacle [to general use] with Gen-AI than all the other technology we’ve been dealing with for decades,” said Barbara Lavernos, deputy chief executive of cosmetics company L’Oreal....
...One such follower is actor Miranda Richardson. “I first came across Bonfield in a beautifully curated store called The Merchant’s Table in Woodbridge, Suffolk....
...Like bigger peers such as L&G, Just has a record pipeline of such deals in what is expected to be a record year for the market....
...Inflatables have become a huge part of Richardson’s business....
...April 19; further information and tickets here ‘Fiori d’acciaio’ (Steel Magnolias), Teatro Manzoni An Italian-language stage adaptation of the 1989 weepy, starring Barbara De Rossi and Martina Colombari...
...Flicking through the exhibition catalogue, it’s hard to avoid comparisons to artists such as Moore, Giacometti and Barbara Hepworth....
...Remember that at the time a lot of people thought this would become a redux of the S&L crisis and that a recession was unavoidable as banks retrenched....
...L’Artisane Dakar metal single earring, £35. Sandals, model’s own Angel wears Off-White cotton trousers, POA....
...“Next slide, please” by Claire L Evans in the MIT Technology Review also charts the moment when PowerPoint changed everything: the person giving the presentation could also prepare it....
...Oli de L’Oliveta is working to change that. Olives are harvested by friends and family, who crowd into the casita for a four-day picking spree....
...A former local, Paul Richardson has travelled around the region to write this week’s cover story about this Balearic bohemia, having first lived there in the ’90s, and he finds it invigorated with new creative...
...Special thanks to Lotusland garden, a centre for horticulture conservation in Santa Barbara, California...
...His relationship to prehistory is explored in an exhibition recently unveiled at the Musée de l’Homme....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...If typicity and local traditions are all part of what makes wine culture so endlessly fascinating, it’s gratifying to see top artisanal producers such as Sandhi, which makes a house Santa Barbara Chardonnay...
...Collective leather Shiro tote, €1,900 Wohngeist seven-piece tool kit in wood case, £950, mrporter.com Paul Smith striped wool scarf, £125, mrporter.com Loro Piana New Zealand Bouclé candle, £325 Dr Barbara...
...She admits that putting together the 2011 exhibition, Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour Fou, with the artist’s biographer John Richardson, was “very emotional. The show was an homage to love and lust....
...She gradually develops a friendship with Barbara, a Grenadian nurse. Denied the opportunity to pursue medical research, Barbara is instead assigned the worst jobs on the ward by her colleagues....
...Sturm Hydrating Face Mist, €85 Givenchy L’Intemporel Blossom Cream-in-Mist, £48 Drunk Elephant Sweet Biome Sake Spray, £35 Chanel Hydra Beauty Essence Mist, £48...
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
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