Hints and tips:
...For thoughtful analysis of Drakeford’s “contrasts” and his pandemic legacy, I’d recommend Will Hayward’s piece (and his Substack)....
...I reasoned that there was only one other place I’d seen carrot cubes suspended in warm liquid . . . and that wasn’t conducive to appetite....
...L’Astrance is rather upscale and best suited for a celebratory dinner, a birthday or a date you’d like to impress....
...“I’d like to say I’d come up with the answer to the great question of economics for internal and external balance but, nah, it didn’t happen,” he says....
...Both these cooks shamelessly mix influences like cultural DJs and by now, if Bhogal walked in stirring a bowl of pho with a fried Mars bar while Ottolenghi declaimed in fluent Old Norse, it would seem entirely...
...Gordon said that the hundreds of his puzzles he’d brought along as printouts had been immediately snatched up; he was hopeful for new sign-ups....
...The gadget I couldn’t do without is a Bic pen and any scrap of paper I can find. I write lists and notes and make sketches ahead of every shoot. That’s just how I work....
...A new venue belonging to the Academy of Fine Arts Florence is housed there, as well as LVMH’s IME (L’Institut des Métiers d’Excellence)....
...After catering college, I went travelling, which gave me the chance to eat everything from Vietnamese phos to hearty, slow-cooked South African stews — all of which were born in a stockpot....
...These people thought nothing cried out “sophisticated lady” more loudly than a packet of Bic disposable knickers....
...I’d describe, if you’d indulge me and I had another 400 words, exemplary tournedos Rossini and a wholly peng tarte au citron . . . but there’s the very point; I don’t have to, do I?...
...“I’d like to think the food has become second only to the music,” Eveleigh says....
...On top of everything, it’s highly flammable and you can turn the cans into blowtorches with a Bic lighter. It’s a marketing perfect storm.”...
...For example, the same budget would only be enough to buy a two-bedroom apartment within 100 metres of the beach in Fréjus on the Côte d’Azur....
...“We’d like to change this situation.”...
...At this point, says Díaz, he’d be happy if his next novel “was just A Novel”. Coffee downed, we get set to leave....
...Emerging-world demand more than offset these falls, led by countries that Barclays has nicknamed “Bics” – Brazil, India, China and Saudi Arabia....
...But as I hit my mid-30s, I began to worry about whether I’d meet that special someone with whom I’d want to spend the rest of my life....
...Desrousseaux de Vandières loves fresh foie gras, which he presents lightly seared with strawberries, spices and black truffle, while Ha prepares a delicious pho ga soup of rice noodles, beef, chicken and...
...But then Paris’s Chinatown – a vast area located mainly in the 13th arrondissement that is bordered by two long avenues, d’Ivry and de Choisy – is a surprising place, as I found when I visited with someone...
.... €40-€75 per piece. www.puiforcat.com …………………… D.lab Bic and Boc A highlight at Maison & Objet for the past three years has been the small but impressive stand of d.lab from Singapore....
...When I flew out of Hong Kong, I reflected on what an extraordinary few days it had been, with some of the best food I’d had in a long time....
...It was here, during the late 1980s, that razor and pen entrepreneur Baron Marcel Bich, the course’s late owner, held a legendarily avant-garde management training seminar for executives at his Bic corporation...
...Freeland: Do you still call them BRIC, or have you gone to BIC, as some people have started to do? O’Brien: And BIC is? Freeland: Without Russia. O’Brien: Oh. No, we are doing well in Russia....
...On subsequent visits, I’d find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents’ dining room.”...
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