Hints and tips:
...Deborah Levy says, eyeing the menu cautiously....
...Blanch the pasta one sheet at a time for 30 seconds in a wide pan of highly salted (10g/l) water with the extra virgin olive oil in it....
...But he regularly returned to his birthplace and his beloved motifs: the dry, rugged landscape, the fishing village of l’Estaque and the Mont Sainte-Victoire....
...Just as beguiling are her trompe l’oeils – edible bites that look like one thing but are actually another....
...From bitter experience my guests know what I like to cook indoors. To change the tone and widen my repertoire, I decided to withdraw to the kitchen and experiment. I am a fundamentalist cook....
...April 4 to 7; further information and tickets here ‘Film Cycle: Deborah Stratman’, Jeu de Paume American artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman tackles notions of power and control, investigating the dynamics...
...(The cook will not divulge the recipe.) Further up the hill is what Thomas called his “wordsplashed” writing shed....
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...“That he still has and uses a smoker to cook brisket he bought at Kmart 20-something years ago just speaks to him as a human being like all of us — and so very humble,” Bass said....
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...Real cooks pit their cherries by hand. After the 1930s, grape scissors suggested a priggish adherence to outmoded decorum....
...According to L’Equipe, PSG ditched plans for a US tour after being offered €20mn to divert to Japan instead....
...“When you think of Sheffield you probably think of a [L S] Lowry painting; that harsh, cold, rugged darkness of industry,” says Mamnick’s Barnett, whose grandfather was a steel forger....
...It’s where we buy most of the ingredients for our restaurants, though it’s well loved by home cooks too....
...At the feast of L-Imnarja, celebrated towards the end of June to commemorate Saints Peter and Paul, candles and bonfires are lit, Maltese folk music is played and the national dish of fenkata (rabbit stew...
...“Anna Maria used two distinct hair colours — one fair and the other much darker — interwoven to make a thicker, longer and more workable thread,” says the exhibition curator Beverley Cook....
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...There’s a strong sense of community, not only between cooks and growers but among locals too....
...“In the city, we lead an active life and don’t have time to cook – when we come [here], Coke makes bread and we go for long walks....
...It was a teenage pastry cook that initially caught Barnes’s attention: “outrageous, fascinating, real, truculent, afflicted with an immense ear, superb, unexpected, and right”....
...lower-ground floor, working on the flow of the space to carve out a generous zebra marble-topped and stone-floored kitchen, the minutiae of which was carefully overseen by Hugo, the self-appointed house cook...
...Many of the others were rising quickly in the restaurant trade as waiters, cooks and maître d’s....
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