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...It had some incredible chutneys, including fig, some salmon pâté and the most beautiful apple juice, the best you’ve ever tasted. I have a collection of model and toy elephants....
...I work my way through the hotel menu, developing a deep fondness for almogrote, a cured-cheese pâté that is served with every meal from breakfast onwards....
...She ably took Kate Bush’s vocal part in the consoling anthem “Don’t Give Up”, among the fan favourites from Gabriel’s solo career that balanced out the unfamiliar new songs....
...“It must be 8 or 9 degrees, you don’t stay in too long but you feel great afterwards,” he says. The day gets easier from there....
...You don’t have to confirm your booking with a credit card, make an upfront payment or be subject to a cancellation policy....
...Why don’t you go and check it out for me?...
...Other Germanic treats include spicy liptauer cheese, which Paul makes fresh alongside prawn mayo, mackerel pâté – “nice with pickled cucumber” – and roast topside of beef....
...The liver pâté — one of the shop’s signature products — is also a popular gift among locals....
...And, increasingly, the monastic tonsure forming on my ageing pate. Real name Mark Kelmanson. Where are you? West Yorkshire, a hat’s throw from Ilkley Moor. Years compiling 30....
...“But it’s a lot of plăcintă . . . ” We both pass on the rabbit and chicken liver pâté. I also ruefully forgo a second glass of the Cuvée....
...For special occasions including New Year’s Eve, Volger swears by his mixed-mushroom pâté containing dried porcini, cremini, miso, cashew, tahini and a small glug of brandy or whisky....
...“She understood that you don’t get into this business, and you surely don’t get into leadership in this business, without thick skin,” said John Lawrence, her former chief of staff....
...Some don’t even realise that it’s actually a place.” Island life is isolated. It’s raw and elemental, and days are often dictated by the tides....
...Kashmir Loom’s kanis don’t come cheap, but they are works of wearable art. kashmirloom.com Lucy Folk gold and semi-precious-stone Tribute ring, from A$1,500 (about £830)I’ve loved Folk’s whimsical, freehand...
...“Things don’t turn out the way we thought,” goes one telling line. So it proves in a film whose splashy audacity extends to the titles, arriving after 33 minutes, an upper-case Before and After....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is patè di capperi e pistacchio from Pantelleria....
...I don’t think I could manage more than three or four....
...For dessert I’d suggest the chocolate roulade that I have supplied in these pages previously and which can be found in A Long and Messy Business, which may sound like the libretto for Don Carlos but is a...
...I don’t buy too much, though, my car boot is already laden with the spoils of Montreuil....
...“When you don’t eat milk products or meat,” she tells me, “you eat a lot of bread.” Vegetable pâté became a staple....
...We don’t get the plum seats with a view of the West End or City, but are instead placed directly above London Bridge station, with its railway tracks stretching far into south-east London....
...Don’t, whatever you do, eat all the chicken, because you need space for dessert....
...Last time I was in Paris my friend Emilien showed me a shop called Lastre Sans Apostrophe, which sells different kinds of pâtés and was awarded the best pâté en croûte in the world, which sounds to me like...
...Romance, surprise and delight are nice, but don’t be ashamed to be practical. And if you’re not sure what gift might be appreciated, ask....
...Lastly, one thing I love to do that I don’t do often enough is ride on a yakatabune....
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