Hints and tips:
...Because it’s not farmed intensively and the pigs eat acorns, there is no risk of worms. Why are butcher’s shops so expensive?...
...Lesson learned: don’t judge a sushi by its melon....
...Authentic jamón ibérico comes from pure ibérico-breed pigs that are raised free-range and principally fed acorns....
...“I was imagining these flighty, jumpy creatures, who are always on an upward trajectory through the trees, looking for acorns,” she explains....
...While oaks do grow indeed from acorns, they do so slowly, and none may grow as mighty as Arm....
...“They don’t just want to do it. They have to do it,” he said. “They just need to do it faster.”...
...“I don’t know why no one ever used these healing products in cosmetics before. It’s a genius idea.” The experience leaves me feeling invigorated and my skin lifted, plumped and glowing....
...“Don’t promise arbitrarily something that all of us in the room know we can’t deliver.”...
...“I don’t think the government wants to preside over a big increase in homelessness. But that is what will happen.” oliver.telling@ft.com...
...“How many can say they don’t know someone afflicted by cancer?” Sometimes, the personal aspect comes later....
...SPDR owes something to all its antecedents, but is the acorn from which a mighty oak grew....
...But I don’t remember anyone ever putting the two things together: it turns out I was living on the fringes of a British rainforest....
...These are elegant late Regency cupboards, made from wood with a beautiful grain, with marble tops and charming feet, which look a bit like upturned acorns....
...But . . . we don’t want to be a supermarket. We want to do one thing.”...
...“But it’s not true to say that young people are selfish and don’t get it.”...
...Its cheaper cousin, the Acorn Electron, even fewer, 250,000 units. Surely the ZX Spectrum then, 2mn of those were sold....
...I have a pack with German suits (acorns, leaves, hearts, bells) that a boyfriend found when clearing out the house of a Polish couple in north London. Playing cards have a fairytale quality....
...“So we tell clients, ‘Don’t be afraid to ask those questions.’”...
...“Bursa’s chestnuts just don’t open as nicely, they’re only good for candying,” says Gunar. Not everyone would agree....
...“I don’t like running a company — I’m not averse to making money, but I just don’t like managing people. It’s a distraction.” The ZXs were feeble computers by today’s standards....
...“While I don’t doubt there will be other stores found in Europe over time . . . they will still be dwarfed by the North Sea.”...
...I dread restaurants where they try too hard and I’m infuriated by places where they don’t try hard enough, which is why it’s a pleasure to eat at Lurra....
...“If we don’t then I’m sure that shareholders will be more than happy to take the money we’ll generate off our hands.”...
...I don’t think anybody has worked on anything quite like this before.”...
...“Don’t panic — you can plant bulbs until January....
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