Hints and tips:
...She orders for both of us two spicy vegetarian dishes: mapo tofu, a popular Sichuan recipe with water chestnuts and onions in a chilli sauce, and mushrooms with beanshoots....
...The wine list is an education too: 14 Italian small-production natural or at least artisanal wines, five from the Veneto, and all available by the glass....
...The Consumers’ Association bought it in 1980 and turned it into the annual The “Which?” Wine Guide. That year I became wine correspondent of The Sunday Times....
...Water chestnuts (used in Chinese cooking) are not chestnuts, but the edible tubers from a sedge plant....
...One in 10 of Rook’s customers is moving to the area from overseas for the quality of the education....
...On our longest walk, Tongwe trackers lead us on to a whaleback ridge. Mountains roll into the distance, their clefts forested in green....
...She left London and a job at design label Joseph to move back home, where she met Edward, and she now runs a regional private equity association....
...Barren black rock, a rather bland dented triangle compared to the beautiful, dramatic ridges that surround it. All of this, for that....
...Millions joined veterans’ associations, in part to recapture the camaraderie they had once felt....
...Publicity was assured not simply by Michael Gove’s call, as Conservative education secretary, for a patriotic celebration that battled “leftwing myths”....
...To supplement my education, I had the benefit of a Lonely Planet guidebook, 2007 edition. From its 1,236 pages, Manipur receives less than a quarter-page....
...You can have, so the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (Padi) manual suggests, “more wildlife experiences in 10 minutes on a coral reef than in 10 hours in a forest”....
...The event is run by the Big Apple Association (www.bigapple.org.uk), along the lines of a big village fête, but with a lot more drinking....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association: I think part of the issue here is the old structural/cyclical chestnut – personally I interpret the weak productivity growth as a sign that the permanent...
...Wary of both global grandstanding and association with failure, David Cameron chose not to be represented at all....
...The lime and chestnut trees are in full leaf; the rolling parkland sparkles emerald-green after a week of torrential rain....
...In May, the German-born model and TV presenter Heidi Klum started a lifestyle site in association with AOL....
...If you imitate a tourist and look up, you’ll see two great ridges of skyscrapers framing the shimmering valley that is Fifth Avenue. Thirty years ago, New York City’s future looked far less bright....
...The description of sea bass sautéed with water chestnuts sounds good enough, and peer pressure prompts me to order my rice brown. Moore wants only tap water, and I follow suit....
...This non-profit investor education group allows its 150,000 paying members to vote once a week on how they think stocks will do in the next six months....
...The village clings to the edge of a ridge, looking over forested mountains down to the sea, 30 miles away....
...These were known locally as the Fontegrande and Orsogna ridges but such were the casualties incurred that the Maoris soon referred to them as Jittery Ridge and Cemetery Ridge....
...Falls and pools of chestnut water, lichen-thickened trees, and a broad flood-plain of pasture – no wonder the drovers had brought their animals this way....
...“When they open the run for a 10-minute period, one patroller sits at the top of the ridge and another sits over to the left where the fracture points are....
...I was having lunch at St John with a friend and we ordered chestnuts. I thought I’d really like to see what Fergus does with chestnuts and the answer is Fergus does very little with chestnuts....
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