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...There’s the lingering question mark over the country’s credibility as a result of Brexit and the way the UK’s government has conducted itself since....
...Both Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook, reprising their original roles but now 10 years older, brought a new poignancy and pathos to their characters....
...Such attitudes have left their mark....
...Legacies of European imperialism In case you missed it, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte gave a speech on Monday that was arguably the most clear-cut apology ever made by a European head of government for...
...In the long procession of expatriates to Paris, the 1920s, what the French called les années folles, or “the crazy years”, was the high-water mark....
...He had joined in 1989, risen through the ranks, created many of the dishes that made it one of the most significant restaurants in the history of UK hospitality, spent a year working at Chez Panisse in California...
...His three places are Chez Bruce, The Ledbury and La Trompette. Their lists have real depth because he’s been buying wine for ages and storing it....
...Jymy’s flavours are Nordic classics: liquorice, lingonberry jam and pine – the last created in 2017 to mark the centenary of Finland’s independence from the Russians....
...(Lowe was uncredited on that occasion too, working on commission for the brand Chez Sonia.)...
...Gore Vidal headlined the festival’s inaugural year and was, Garnaut says, “a complete asshole” on landing at Shanghai International Airport....
...Restaurant kitchens are predominantly male; the percentage of female head chefs in the UK has been hovering at around the 20 per cent mark for the past decade....
...He gets riled by customers checking the retail price of the wines on his list on their phones and then complaining about the mark-up....
...It’s somewhere between Jackie Kennedy in 1963, bloodstained and bouffant in a spare Chez Ninon copy of a Chanel suit, and surly near-naked mid-1990s teenagers dressed in Calvin Klein jeans....
...And their current popularity is perhaps a reaction to mass manufacturing; perfection is a reflection of industrial processes and imperfection now a mark of luxury....
...Otherwise, there are gotcha moments: the shelves of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bereft of books perhaps, or Holocaust denier David Irving’s work spotted chez Michael Gove....
...“To paraphrase Gore Vidal, in [the advertising] business it is not enough to succeed but for others to fail,” he said....
...River Café large gift box, from £600 10 Ever since I saw Chez Panisse’s Alice Waters using a Japanese pestle and mortar to pulverise garlic and make vinaigrettes, I have wanted one....
...The first show, featuring 100 photos by Helmut Newton to mark the centenary of his birth, opened just before lockdown; this month sees a Ron Arad retrospective. The place to stay?...
...Consider US president Donald Trump’s slogan, “make America great again”, the Brexiters’ “take back control”, or French politician Marine Le Pen’s “on est chez nous” (we are at home)....
...The slow-burning “Chez Tortoni (Manet)” captures the central figure’s gaze with a mixed-metre song and alternating major and minor keys....
...Mark Gurney, one of the owners of Salon, Larry’s and Levan, three south London restaurants, is relieved that August is almost over....
...“We are the proverbial canary in the coal mine,” says Mark Gill, chief executive of Solstice. “We don’t know how this will work out. It’s impossible to project.”...
...This week’s appointment of the domineering Koeman marks a new approach....
...Mark Bailey was a guest of Quebec Original (quebecoriginal.com; quebec-cite.com) and Destination Canada (destinationcanada.com)....
...Signs popped up reading: “Parisien, rentre chez toi” — Parisian, go home. Those who work in the creative industries are often priced out of Manhattan....
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