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...My wife Christie and I will often start off early with breakfast at E5 Bakehouse, a bakery, mill and shop nestled in the railway arches by London Fields station....
...Edamame beans and exotic fruit motifs, lobsters and wishbones, chillies, bagels, sushi and sweets… All play a part in the foodie mood that’s in fashion....
...We were at a private view at Christie’s auction house for an exhibition of 59 works of the supermodel....
...As a child, reading Agatha Christie’s Poirot books somehow made me feel safe....
...The result can turn a novelist barely able to afford baked beans and printer ink into someone in urgent need of a financial adviser to invest the £50,000 prize and the subsequent cash bonanza....
...Black pudding and egg are Terence Stamp and Julie Christie. Anchovy and garlic are Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
...Winston Churchill had a room there, and it’s also where Agatha Christie was inspired to write Death on the Nile....
...Christie’s Shanghai and Sotheby’s Hong Kong had already joined the fray in 2017....
...In literature and popular culture, deadly plants have starred as plot devices, from the novels of Agatha Christie to Little Shop of Horrors and The Day of the Triffids....
...“People used to bring their beans and beetroots, so now they bring their books too,” she says....
...The beans are shipped by a Dutch importer and the chocolate is made in Germany....
...When you get a work that suddenly makes $100m more, that is the greatest single leap,” says the global president of Christie’s....
...Christie Aschwanden at fivethirtyeight.com explains the statistical problems with p-values....
...Despite this, Christie’s opened smart offices just behind the famed Peninsula Hotel in Shanghai a year ago....
...“I think the leader in the Caribbean is still St Barts,” says Giles Hannah, senior vice-president at Christie’s International Real Estate. (Saint Barthélemy, to you and me.)...
...Bunny Christie’s set design consists of huge boards of press-out parts for life-size models of the Ford Cortina produced at the company’s UK plant in Dagenham, Essex, in the 1960s....
...That agreement has long been torn up and Sotheby’s and Christie’s compete with each other from time to time for the same people. Christie’s, however, does have one large advantage over Sotheby’s....
...Early morning NGDP: It’s Charlie Bean, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy, on nominal income targets....
...Mr Bean urged against trying to find a single culprit at the heart of the financial crisis: “As in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, everyone had a hand in it.”...
...Another 30 paintings, mainly traditional seascapes, are in tomorrow’s sale, at prices in the low thousands of dollars, although there is also a modern British sculpture by FE McWilliam, “Anthropomorphic Bean...
...The 40 screens have been fitted with Christie digital projectors, each with satellite and broadband connections and compliant with the DCI encryption standards on which Hollywood studios insist....
...Prim and with an old world politeness, she reminds me of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s straight-laced detective....
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