Hints and tips:
...Unlike cotton, which is so thirsty a plant it has dried up rivers, “nettle grows back every year without irrigation”, says Dr Amanda Parkes, chief innovation officer at Pangaia....
...Enter Dr Aaron Stern, the Freudian-trained psychoanalyst one insider described to the FT’s Laurence Fletcher and Harriet Agnew as “Julian’s horse-whisperer”....
...For somewhere gorgeous, there’s the Ritz in Paris for couture in July – nothing better. And I’d love to get back to the Amangiri hotel, set right in the Utah desert’s canyons and gorges....
...I have ventured down a spiral staircase behind The Ritz and stepped into the future: the vaults that are said once to have housed Churchill’s wine collection are now home to treatment chambers with space-age...
...Mondelez, the $81bn maker of Oreo cookies, Cadbury chocolate and Ritz crackers, is on the hunt to acquire healthier snack brands as consumers watch their weight and both investors and governments urge action...
...Delafosse knows a thing or two about luxury hotels, having worked at The Ritz in London and, most recently, as general manager of the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris....
...Sandra Davis, head of the family department at Mishcon de Reya, the law firm acting for Mr Juffali, said in a statement: “Dr Juffali has shown himself to be a fair man who has been prepared to offer his...
...On the corner of Arlington Street and Piccadilly, the property faces The Ritz hotel and has Green Park on its doorstep....
...French government-sanctioned “palace” status, the better-than-five star classification introduced in 2010 and granted only to hotels that “symbolise excellence and perfection”, to whose ranks the venerable Ritz...
...But Ulster Carpet Mills has quietly made a name for itself as a provider of luxury carpets for the world’s cruise liners, casinos and five-star hotels, including the Ritz Hotel in Paris and the Burj Al Arab...
...Earlier this year the same investors bought the Ritz Carlton hotel in Wicklow, which they have rebranded....
...Not only to survive but continue with its move into “Technology” — or flogging iPod, speaker docs and absurdly overpriced headphones endorsed by Dr Dre — for a little bit longer....
...Jacques Guérin, a French bibliophile and perfumier, falls ill and visits Dr Robert Proust, Marcel’s younger brother....
...Dr Mengele, the mass murderer comes in – not just a murderer but the man who experimented on human beings – and asks to hear a piece of music by Schumann, what did I feel like?”...
...Food waste, and bodies, on conventional heaps create a handy combination of rodent food and accommodation, a sort of ratty Ritz....
...Dr Lo wants the hotel to take on the likes of Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton and become one of London’s top-five establishments....
...Dr David Golding, for services to the World Poverty Campaign. Mark Goldring, chief executive officer, Voluntary Services Overseas....
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