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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...His pride and joy is his organic veg patch, which produces a cornucopia of food: “broccoli, kale, lettuce, fennel, cucumber, various melons – which I used to think grew on trees!...
...Among the works to be displayed in a palazzo-like interior are standalone terracotta fruit — and a cucumber — by Giovanni della Robbia (1469-1529), the son of Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525, also in the...
...Highlights include the miso cucumber with seaweed caviar and the black sangohachi aubergine – both are well worth getting lost for. cookiescream.com Alexander Tyndall Café Gratitude, Los Angeles As someone...
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...I usually get the fried chicken, which is cooked and served in the traditional Hungarian way with a pickled cucumber salad and mashed potatoes....
...A doughty individual in sensible shoes, she arrives ruddy-cheeked from her invigorating seven-mile bike ride, wolfs down cucumber sandwiches and exudes the sort of hearty enthusiasm well suited to organising...
...There can only be one winner in the case of the actor Harry Shearer v Vivendi, the French media group, over royalties from the 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap....
...I flew back with a just-published copy of V Is for Vegetables by Michael Anthony, the chef who put seasonal vegetables at the heart of the Gramercy Tavern menu....
...● Top and tail and peel the cucumbers. Continue to peel the cucumbers, taking great long ribbons, rotating them evenly and leaving the central seedy stalk....
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
...It was also the year Alonso V of Aragon captured Naples. There’s probably an inquiry still going on to that too....
...Cape Grace (www.cape grace.com; doubles £408) on the V&A Waterfront is a hotel that belongs to Cape Town. Following an overhaul by local designer Kathi Weixelbaumer, it is packed with period antiques....
...Until 2009, a restaurant called Nyonya existed on a V-shaped site in Notting Hill Gate, west London. But then the family members who were working there decided to set up on their own, opening Sedap....
...The notices pinned up in the shop windows hinted at the cultural divide: “Eymet Cricket Club v Bordeaux CC. Dimanche, 13.00hrs. The a l’anglais. Boissons fraiches.”...
...Among his recipes are jellies of cucumber, petits pois and green chartreuse. Jelly has long been held to be worthy of banquets....
...Days before the hotel opened, while Mackay was fretting about the size of cucumber sandwiches, his mobile phone rang with a more urgent issue....
...Gladwell is quietly spoken and casually dressed in T-shirt and V-neck jumper....
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