Hints and tips:
...Roads were good and the restaurants jolly places of endless courses. But travel here was across decades as well as mountains....
...Out of greed, I requested a side of French fries too. This led to a horrible realisation. Neither the chips nor the fries at Manzi’s are any good....
...Season with salt and pepper, and fry for three minutes, before flipping it. Fry for a further three minutes. Remove from the pan to cool a little. Meanwhile, prepare your salad plate....
...Wash down your meal with a Colaba, a cocktail of bourbon, amaretto, bitters and jaggery — the hint of sweetness is the perfect foil to the beef pepper fry....
...“You can’t eat a doughnut without licking your lips or being jolly,” she trilled. I was nine. Grace was approaching her 10th decade. I took a bite, licked my lips and smiled....
...tastes like sewage,” Fiennes laments, as he takes us on a journey through some of Covid-19's weirder symptoms: herpes, conjunctivitis and malfunctioning taste buds that turn the most fail-safe of stir-fry...
...There were dozens of people who had woken up to the same jolly idea. They idled on the long grass full of wildflowers....
...“It’s a jolly easy way to look passably smart,” he once confided to me. “And you don’t dunk your tie in the soup.” Bombay Brasserie, Courtfield Road, London SW7 (020-7370 4040; bombayb.co.uk)....
...Picture the jolly irony of 200 beer bellies chanting “you fat bastard” at the opposition goalkeeper as he prepares to take a goal kick....
...A group of Malians are on their way out and joking with Yaffa; I don’t understand a word but it all sounds very jolly....
...The company was jolly, the food was rich and delicious. The wine came in big, square, heavy decanters that took an effort to lift....
...Yet the last time Britain experienced sustained blackouts, in the early 1970s, it seemed curiously jolly....
...We have other fish to fry, like the Super Bowl. So do come visit. I’m not sure who I am or where I’ll be but the FDR memorial, or the nearby driving range, is a good place to start....
...I can also forgive the flags and the bunting; indeed, they are quite jolly....
...But we have set the piece in the 1890s, a cusping moment, and duels were jolly, jolly rare.” Her protagonists barely know what they are doing. She sets the epic confrontation as “an improvised event....
...And ABC’s Martin Fry can still nail “Look of Love”. Bananarama’s hits come across as bubblegum pop classics....
...Sly Bailey of Trinity Mirror, Carolyn McCall of Guardian Media Group and John Fry of Johnston Press made a good show of casting themselves as hapless victims when they appeared before MPs....
...The obvious thing to have, of course, is smoked salmon – and jolly nice too....
...Jolly Time? brand from his home state of Iowa. ?I love popcorn. It?s low-fat, you know,? says the Democrat, with a politician?...
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