Hints and tips:
...The small plates, as the kids say, slap (they’re somehow both gorgeous and pack a flavour punch): a smoked whitefish salad comes with golden fried saltines. Crispy long beans coil in on themselves....
...Yaongyimchen, like all Naga villages, perches atop a mountain, its brightly painted wooden houses set along the spine of a ridge. Red splashes of bougainvillea trail over bamboo fences....
...Nasi goreng rice crowned with a perfectly fried egg. Cheesy chips drenched in katsu gravy, topped with spring onions and bonito flakes....
...As the stones grind together, the beans are crushed between their ridges, the milk spilling lazily down the sides of the lower stone and pooling in the wok below....
...Powerpoints and paella: a junior analyst’s paradise Málaga: home of Pablo Picasso, golden sand beaches, and — eventually — 30 Citigroup employees....
...Job moves Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Simon Tinkler as a senior legal adviser in a part-time role. He joins from Clifford Chance where he was a partner....
...“He said, ‘Never wear mill-made cloth. You must always wear khadi. Go back and tell your parents that they must dress you only in khadi.’...
...Grizzly Peak and Tilden Park, above Berkeley (24 miles, 1,900ft ascent) Good for: Great views across the bay to SF and the Golden Gate, from the ridge above Berkeley Not so good for: If you don't have...
...During China’s earliest dynasties, staple grains (mainly millet, but also rice, soyabeans and wheat) were steamed or boiled, and eaten whole, as they still are in rice-eating regions....
...“The Golden Teahouse was the era I came up in,” she says. “It was this west Philly house where a lot of indie bands started....
...Perched up on a ridge nearby, the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort is among a cluster of five-star properties that pander to moneyed hikers, elephant lovers and sightseers....
...From clifftop greens I look down to where vast rollers crash against reefs, whitewater flooding a deserted golden beach to reach the sun-dappled dunes....
...Last year John Griffin’s Blue Ridge Capital, Neil Chriss’s Hutchin Hill Capital and Eric Mindich’s Eton Park Capital all shuttered, while industry legend Paul Tudor Jones closed one of his funds....
...“Textiles, paper mills, lumber mills, all these places in southern and eastern Arkansas,” said Mervin Jebaraj, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas....
...On the tiny stove guide Almas somehow turns out a delicious rice plov which, rich with lamb fat, is the perfect foil to the evening chill....
...We sat and listened before crossing a ridge of low hills to the plain of Marathon....
...Paid the autowalla 5kgs of rice from a store....
...Reading the laminated room-service menu card, complete with English translations, he is tempted by the spicy chicken curry with rice and chilli sauce....
...One night we forsook the lodge for a peasant family’s home — helping them milk cows and churn butter, sharing their rice, potatoes and arra (rice wine) as we sat cross-legged around their stove, playing...
...Sometimes the fur would be dark, other times golden, and if he had butchered the camel that morning, the neck would be still dripping blood....
...Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford, Faber, RRP£16.99 Spufford, known as a distinguished writer of non-fiction, brings a hyperactive 18th-century New York to life in his first novel....
...Stand on the bank and you can see golden and silver mahseer fish swimming in the pools and hear the harsh bark of the sambar, a type of deer, from among the trees....
...A microwave pings in the kitchen, and Unger returns with plates of seared salmon and fried rice with vegetables. I refill our glasses....
...His business career began in 1936, when he set up a small rice mill in the southern town of Masan, buying a truck to gain an edge in distribution over competitors, who relied on ox-carts....
...I studiously tried each over rice before giving in and making a mess of my plate and corner of the table, spooning them over everything in my path....
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