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.... £6.50 a half Tesco Lustau, Torre del Oro Palo Cortado NV Sherry (19%), Dry Oloroso NV Sherry (20%) and Don Gaspar Amontillado NV Sherry (18.5%)Ridiculous value for these dry, long oak-aged treasures....
...Animal painter Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic displayed delightful drawings of his dogs Jupiter and Caesar at Boulevard des Capucines, then at the Salon large canvases of a raven and a dove — “Le Déluge” (1874),...
...March 23 to 29; further information and tickets here Event Ides of March 2024, Largo di Torre Argentina A historical re-enactment of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC — on the day and at the...
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...that my companions were about to crash from their marzipan sugar highs, but they enjoyed nosing around the palace, racing each other down its twin staircases, marvelling at the tiled floors and trompe l’...
...But there is also a lot of only mildly amusing spoofery, like the Coens’ other Hollywood-set satire, Hail, Caesar!...
...Among these are a ’70s wicker palm tree floor lamp by the Mexican artist Mario Lopez Torres; and a set of sculptural, modular 1977 table lamps produced by the Japanese manufacturers Yamagiwa....
...In De l’Esprit des Lois, published in 1748, he claimed: “The natural effect of commerce is to bring peace....
...The account is based on Caesar’s own writing but infused with Robb’s infectious love of geography and nature....
...The work combines humour, technical skill and mastery of materials to achieve an uncanny trompe l’oeil that deceives the eye into believing just for an instant that one is looking at an ice cream....
...The assassination took place on the steps of a theatre in what is now Largo di Torre Argentina....
...Arriving at the Park Square East gate, you confront the pun that is Gavin Turk’s oversized trompe l’oeil bronze of a half-open peeling wooden door, “L’Age d’Or”....
...These were the immortal words spoken by Caesar on the Ides of March in 44BC having just been stabbed 23 times by his disciple Brutus during a meeting of the Senate....
...It forms an L-shape with the shorter naval wing, for those convicted of misdemeanours on the high seas....
...Ever since a late summer’s day in 47BC, when Julius Caesar took a trip on the Nile with Cleopatra, foreigners have been finding and taking away bits of Egypt....
...Another useful half-bottle.£14.95 for 37.5cl Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Pierre-Bise, L’Anclaie 2014 Coteaux du Layon Beaulieu 11%An old favourite from Anjou....
...The 1993 Smog album Julius Caesar was the first he made in a professional studio, overseen by a desultory engineer who spent his time chugging back cans of beer....
...Trattoria Torre di Pisa, trattoriatorredipisa.it....
...Both have New Zealand wine’s usual palate-tingling crispness, with the residual sugar in the Sauvignon a little over 5 g/l, and the Riesling, which certainly doesn’t taste sweeter than off dry, 36 g/l....
...Standard Chartered, head of interest rate derivatives trading 1987-91 Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC), head of trading for fixed income, derivatives and foreign exchange 1991-96 CIC — Banque de l'Union...
...I make a dash for the reopening Solaise lift for a quick Caesar salad up at the Refuge before my return to Geneva....
...Villa Oplontis, Torre Annunziata, pompeiisites.org. ShopsCamiceria Piccolo, camiceriapiccolo.com. E Marinella, emarinella.com. Gay-Odin Antica Cioccolateria, gay-odin.it....
...From €34; lamy.com The grooming staple I’m never without is Diptyque’s L’Ombre dans l’Eau....
...All that dealmaking has turned Luxembourg-domiciled JAB into a challenger to consumer industry giants, such as Nestlé, Starbucks and even L'Oréal....
...Monreal of Mas de Torubio in the village of Cretas, a family winery making juicy Pinot Noir-ish wines with the rare red grape Garnacha Peluda; José Antonio Higueras and Clara Lapuente of the restaurant L’...
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