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...Iacobescu pushed buttons to flash colourful lights that marked each of the crucial railway lines he’d campaigned for — including the Elizabeth Line....
...We were making pinnekjøtt, a festive Norwegian dish usually involving lamb or mutton ribs that are salted, dried and then steamed in their own juices....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I love old classics and wordy fiction....
...Two days after Truss’s arrival in Downing Street, Queen Elizabeth died, putting politics on hold for two weeks. The Queen had urged her in vain to “pace herself”....
...For Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, I cooked a large batch of kedgeree and watched the whole thing on telly. What could be more British?...
...Our neighbours turned out to be Anthony Hanson, an international wine expert at Christie’s, and Rosi Hanson, a wine and food writer who had worked for the great Elizabeth David....
...This was the panoply of mid-century status seeking: paper hats on the lamb chops and piped potatoes. Flaming brandy and aspic as social capital....
...Which of these items is NOT in the Office for National Statistics’ consumer price inflation basket: home-killed lamb, small caged mammal, weekly nanny fees, spirit-based drinks?...
...See if you can spot a painting of Elizabeth Taylor and a print of Oscar Wilde....
...In 1953, Mary’s family and friends squeeze into her parents’ house to watch the flickering black-and-white images on their new television set of the coronation of Elizabeth II, “this passive, inscrutable...
...(They are also open to adaptation: “denial, anger, drinking . . . more drinking” posits the gloriously cynical spymaster Jackson Lamb in an episode of Slow Horses.)...
...The monogram of Queen Elizabeth II, so long gracing the regal red curtains, has been covered over in black....
...He has worked at brands including Céline, Maison Margiela, Balenciaga and Donna Karan....
...“Mimosa is my happy flower,” says McAlpine, who grew up in Venice, where the golden mimosa has been an integral part of Italy’s La Festa della Donna (Women’s Day) celebrations for more than 75 years – on...
...He looks down at his fork and says, with the merest touch of melancholy, “A lamb chop is a lamb chop.” I ask him how South Africa is these days....
...Elizabeth Taylor’s waiter asks her in the 1973 film Ash Wednesday. “Perrier, Vichy, Apollinaris or Crodo?”...
...That never happened to Auguste Escoffier, Elizabeth David, Julia Child or Delia Smith....
...On my visit, the saffron-laced rigatoni with lamb and fennel sausage is the standout, an anthem of Middle Eastern-inspired flavours that resounds with every mouthful....
...I sang Donna Summer and The Spinners into my hair brush and got to practice my dance moves by watching Soul Train on TV (I’m still a HUGE Philadelphia sound fan....
...“She was certainly the originator of the American look — you couldn’t have Calvin Klein or Donna Karan without her,” says Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum at FIT and author of Women...
...Again, there’s a New-York feeling to leaving the skyscrapers and hitting the river, although the city farm with its lambs is idiosyncratically British....
...My mother grated nutmeg into cheese sauce to go with macaroni and onion sauce to go with roast lamb. She added it to cakes and steamed puddings....
...Gift shop windows display T-shirts with It’s a Wonderful Life quotes beside shirts bearing the face of suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton....
...And since I started taking Vigor Donna and Red Clover herbal supplements from the Farmacia Regia in Turin a year ago, I feel like a superwoman.” Aesop Fabulous Face Oil, £40 for 25ml, aesop.com....
...Is not, therefore, the lamb and potato stew our minestra, the pie our pit-smoked BBQ? Are these not the most solid foundations?...
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