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...£20, 248 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letters in response to this article: Counterfactual pricks Putin’s anti-Nazi balloon...
...By contrast, Jade McGlynn’s unfulfilled hopes of victory are contemporary....
...A large green jade ring on his middle finger seems at first glance to be a symbolic nod to alien watchers and mystics. He says it is simply a childhood present from his parents....
...Siy had stints at La Bernardin and Café Boulud in New York, Faviken in Sweden and Noma in Copenhagen, and worked with André Chiang at Restaurant André, each influencing her style of cooking....
...Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus £18.99/Grove Press $28, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Long White Cloud Café, HoxtonHarry Lambert, stylist“It’s just a little coffee shop, nothing fancy, but it’s such a good spot for lunch – I go there every day with my studio friends.” longwhitecloudcafe.com...
...“So it was important that the café and the restaurant were open to everyone.”...
...It’s sleepy – right now, in monsoon season, you might sit for half an hour at Le Banneton Café, stretching out your café crème and croissant (both of which are so perfect you could be in Paris’s sixth arrondissement...
...It is the perfect jade green, not too sweet and ever so slightly smoky....
...The Perfectionists’ Café, Heathrow, Terminal 2 The idea behind Heston Blumenthal’s café is “to serve fantastic food fast” – his take being that the quicker you cook it the better it tastes....
...The exercise, called Jade Helm 15, stood for “homeland eradication of local militants”, according to one of the right’s dark fantasy sites....
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...It was La Paloma, the Mediterranean restaurant with its deliciously rustic setting, that first brought the Jade Jaggers to this backwater, but further novelties are afoot....
...It’s an instantly bucolic place of jade pastures, clunking cowbells and fragrant pine forests, and has been a Dolomite staple since the earliest days of tourism....
...Back in March, as his favourite restaurants and cafés began to close, he launched Vittles to host writing by newly underemployed chefs and food writers....
...The café, with its dusty interiors, pockmarked mirrors and chrome art deco fixtures untouched since the 1920s, feels like a time-warp....
...The water was a deep jade green, and we navigated our way through a fleet of pleasure-boats — the Chasewater, the Lady Caroline — and out into darker water....
...My favourite is the Lawn, a crisp design in an Art Deco palette of jet black, pale grey and jade green....
...She dyes her hair, adopts her middle name, Jade, and gets her wealthy parents to transfer her to the school as a new girl....
...Squeezed into a rather gloomy corner of Coal Drops Yard, this bustling café-bar boasts an enormous selection of vermouths and bitters....
...The Colour of the Sky After Rain , by Tessa Keswick, Head of Zeus, RRP£30, 388 pages James Kynge is the FT’s global China editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao, Admiralty Tsui Wah Restaurant, Central Knead, Sheung Wan Mana!...
...the homes of celebrities such as Jade Jagger and Cara Delevingne....
...My favourites are from the Danish store Flying Tiger: they come in a jade green that looks beautiful against our blue dining-room walls....
...Jade Yesim Turanli, director of Pi Artworks, which has galleries in London and Istanbul, adds, “The interest among younger people is very strong....
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