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...Website; Directions— Christina Ohly Evans, US correspondent, HTSI Essential by Christophe 103 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024 Essential by Christophe may sound like a 1990s eau de cologne, but it...
...Soon Battefeld is rolling the rice, applying the fish with a dab of wasabi — grated fresh on shark skin — and glazing it with a smear of soy sauce....
...The shop is a riot of produce: sheep’s cheeses from the Pyrenees, home-made gazpacho from the Ardèche, honey from Indre, oysters from Brittany, craft beers and natural wines....
...ML Walsingham & Son, 01328-710 438 My wellbeing guru is my Pilates teacher Hannah Adams at Hoxton Pilates. I have a one-to-one with her nearly every week....
...It is my eternal curse that I can’t handle oysters but I can spot a top-notch raw bar when I see one so I ordered a few razor clams which arrived spanking fresh, sliced into chunks and lightly dressed in...
...Browsing at the fish market in Otranto, Fada looks seriously at our choices: the gamberi rossi prawns, mussels and clams, which we sample raw like oysters, and box after box of fat anchovies....
...Sounds perfect. Best of the rest WHAT I’VE BEEN READING ELSEWHERE Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy? A fascinating profile by Evan Osnos, one of my favourite reporters....
...The first assaggino of pasta — spaghetti with clams and bottarga set on a carpaccio of red prawns — follows, again a portion each....
...Benj Pasek and Justin Paul also make the familiar sound fresh by blending rock, country and folk rhythms in a score that recalls the work of singer-songwriters such as Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow and Ryan Adams...
...Well, it sounds like a joke but I’m not sure. With a last observation about the black bread, she’s off, walking alone into the drizzle....
...Wawro, a University of North Texas professor, offers a remarkably fresh and unsentimental analysis of an empire on its last legs....
...John Campbell, Jonathan Cape, RRP£30 The biography of a centre-left politician who never made it to the top of British politics and operated in a period when the country was in gentle decline might not sound...
...But South Africa remains two nations in one, and the slow pace with which government is bridging the gap has set them on a fresh collision course. On this, Evans Ramokga provides a cautionary tale....
...Clams, mussels and oysters twitched and recoiled as we picked them up and slurped them from their pearly shells; the langoustines, thank goodness, had been put out of their misery....
...Like all artists, he makes it sound rather simple....
...My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography By Harold Evans Little, Brown, £25 Amid the gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans’s memoir lifts the spirits....
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