Hints and tips:
...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....
...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...
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...When I ask Mount Anvil, co-developers with L&Q, how they alighted on the name, they do not offer comment....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...In the 1930s, almost every one of the 300 pages of the Thomas Cook Continental Timetable included at least one sleeper, and we are nowhere near that level, but who knows where Generation Z (“the Thunberg...
...And my Vanilla Bean is a trompe-l’oeil pastry that you cut into to reveal a variety of textures....
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