Hints and tips:
...It’s a new day up on the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, above the clouds of cherry blossom in Central Park, over the gothic chapels, mummies and ancient coins....
...MacLachlan captivates as the wacky hero, addressing commentary to his tape recorder, taking childish delight in cherry pie and freshly poured coffee....
...Glover tells his story with easy scholarship, placing Handel in the midst of the city’s turbulent social life, beset by aristocratic factions and temperamental prima donnas....
...Blood is throbbing at my temples, the air is rasping at my throat, and my brain is blaring Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” on repeat. The steep road before me will not relent....
...Patrick Cowley’s electro remix of the Donna Summer classic “I Feel Love” played on the show’s soundtrack, and the collection clipped along to some funky disco beats....
...The massive table top centred on a homely cauliflower, surrounded like a crown by grapes, cherries, turnips, peas, pheasants and slabs of meat, which constitutes Joachim Beuckelaer’s “Kitchen Scene with...
...“It is not easy for these smaller players,” said Donna Bales, managing director of Balmoral Advisory, a consultancy in Singapore....
...The historian confides to me later that, until today, he has never eaten at Donna Marzia in his life....
...One night we called on the services of local chef Donna Melbourne....
...So are synthetic dim sums fated to go the way of other food fads such as deep fried Mars bars and Cherry Coke? Not quite says Chung....
...And don’t forget the sparkler, a pink flamingo and a glacé cherry to top it all off....
...The pale pink and white tint of the cherry trees in bloom around the tidal basin – a small man-made lake surrounded by presidential monuments – is only the most celebrated sign of a city whose many parks...
...Battle flourished a billowing cape that matched a huge vase of cherry blossoms next to the piano....
...Her father, meanwhile, taught her to be thick-skinned and to “spit cherry pits”. It was in India that Newkirk saw locals stuffing a dog’s mouth with mud and laughing as they watched it drowning....
...We took our suitcases on wheelbarrows down a steep hill and through mud into a small cherry orchard overlooking glorious fields....
...US fashion designer Donna Karan chose milled antique oak for her home in East Hampton, New York....
...“With little ones to come, a house seemed like a more practical option for the future,” Donna says....
...Donna Dowling, the 72-year-old volunteer at the museum who started her working life in the R&M factory making fans and ended up running her own restaurant famous for its hefty servings of banana cream pie...
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