Hints and tips:
...And the contract says, I’m going to buy your restaurant for $1mn, and I’d write you a cheque. You’d get the money, I get the restaurant, and we would go on our separate ways....
...The Greek root of “hypocrite” means “to act”. I’m a novelist, but I also investigate corporations, rooting out fraud and hyperbolic accounting in some of the world’s biggest businesses....
...a Middle Eastern restaurant....
...The recommended accompaniment is a house vin d’orange (like a negroni, but less aggressive)....
...“I thought if I’d written a more conventional memoir and never mentioned the meta parts, the book would be absorbed into the body politic of the United States....
...The gallery, in this old-Hollywood-style building, is interesting, too. It felt like a genuine discovery. The place that means a lot to me is the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California....
...In the febrile conditions of the London restaurant scene, we are told that independent restaurants are “finding new ways to operate”....
...California politicians wanted to please potential donors....
...They bonded over Greek food in a downtown DC restaurant with a party that included artist Brian Donnelly, known as KAWS (whom Balvin presented as the 2022 Hirshhorn Ball Artist Honoree in its sculpture garden...
...(a) (of a gem) uncut, unpolished; (b) (of water) undistilled; not filtered; (c) (of alcoholic spirit) undiluted; (d) (of grain) unmalted, undried; (e) (of sewage) untreated. I.2.e....
...I feel like I have to change the horn on my car to have that, and I don’t need a copy of that. That was amazing. Thank you so much. Lilah RaptopoulosI was going to ask if I got your Greek gods right?...
...I suppose a good word would be “anamnesis” from the Greek meaning “remembrance”: both a patient’s account of his medical history and a recollection, a bringing up of memories....
...Tour Réserve 2019 Bordeaux Supérieur (14.5%)I’d love to see this next to a Napa Cabernet that costs 10 times the price....
...Corbin and King had created possibly the most lovely restaurant interior in London at the time, but once the maître d’ had explained to me the purpose of the “inner circle”, how they’d created a special...
...For a few years, La Tour d’Eole, a small, super-elegant ecolodge at the water’s edge, has been the address of choice....
...With a location at the edge of the endlessly gorgeous, Unesco-protected Val d’Orcia, near both Pienza (a tiny Renaissance jewel) and Montepulciano (whence the aforementioned sangiovese-based Vino Nobile,...
...The beautiful people still hung out on the Cote d’Azur back then, or the Balearics, or the quieter Greek islands, so the informal beachside shack was a happy trope....
...In a very fancy restaurant, they might have the same wine but several different vintages of it, so you’d say the vintage as well as something else that would identify the wine. 4....
...made for the church of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London....
...Portugal then was in the UK restaurant scene....
...This May, it will be led for the first time by a Norwegian chef, Heidi Bjerkan, whose Trondheim restaurant, Credo, has a Michelin star....
...The Coach & Horses, a short walk away on Greek Street, is another pub steeped in Soho history that’s also worth a visit....
...“A lyrical delight,” wrote Nicholas Shakespeare in The Times. “A book of great lyrical power,” the young Ian Rankin agreed....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...If wind chimes have a hellish opposite, it must be another ancient instrument, the aeolian harp, named after Aeolus the divine keeper of the winds in Greek mythology....
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