Hints and tips:
...The idea, according to Pruzan co-founder Jessie Hyman, was to “share a bit of what a night out in NYC might look like with racers and their supporters.”...
...Blanch the pasta one sheet at a time for 30 seconds in a wide pan of highly salted (10g/l) water with the extra virgin olive oil in it....
...Just as beguiling are her trompe l’oeils – edible bites that look like one thing but are actually another....
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...Real cooks pit their cherries by hand. After the 1930s, grape scissors suggested a priggish adherence to outmoded decorum....
...According to L’Equipe, PSG ditched plans for a US tour after being offered €20mn to divert to Japan instead....
...“When you think of Sheffield you probably think of a [L S] Lowry painting; that harsh, cold, rugged darkness of industry,” says Mamnick’s Barnett, whose grandfather was a steel forger....
...Jessie Hyman, co-founder of Pruzan, which launches next week, was so sick of badly fitting women’s kit that she designed and wear-tested her own; cut higher on the waist, her “curved” shorts, named after...
...It’s where we buy most of the ingredients for our restaurants, though it’s well loved by home cooks too....
...At the feast of L-Imnarja, celebrated towards the end of June to commemorate Saints Peter and Paul, candles and bonfires are lit, Maltese folk music is played and the national dish of fenkata (rabbit stew...
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...There’s a strong sense of community, not only between cooks and growers but among locals too....
...“In the city, we lead an active life and don’t have time to cook – when we come [here], Coke makes bread and we go for long walks....
...It was a teenage pastry cook that initially caught Barnes’s attention: “outrageous, fascinating, real, truculent, afflicted with an immense ear, superb, unexpected, and right”....
...lower-ground floor, working on the flow of the space to carve out a generous zebra marble-topped and stone-floored kitchen, the minutiae of which was carefully overseen by Hugo, the self-appointed house cook...
...Also in the spring, the actor Jessie Buckley went to the Met Gala in a look inspired by Dalí’s Mustache book, with a comic homage drawn on her upper lip....
...Many of the others were rising quickly in the restaurant trade as waiters, cooks and maître d’s....
...That evening, the feasting continued, when a chef visited Il Canneto to cook us a delicious artichoke casarecce pasta, followed by aubergine Parmigiana and ricotta cannoli....
...“Il va faire très chaud,” they shouted, launching into “Voilà l’été”, twin trombones pumping, accordion blaring, Stéfane Méllino’s guitar thrashing....
...In a debilitating attack of l’esprit de l’escalier, I have since realised there’s no reason on God’s green earth I couldn’t have had both....
...Dall-E is spelled D-A-L-L dash E. It’s a portmanteau of Wall-E, the Pixar robot, and Salvador Dali. And this software is part of a new trend in digital technology called AI-generated art....
...Gyngell has a six-burner gas hob, on which she batch cooks for her week ahead....
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