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...It’s a heart-warming Italian-American classic, hefty pucks of meat that are both rustic and comforting. This recipe is not that exactly....
...But, as far as I am concerned, the real reason to stay there is that just across the road is Seebad Utoquai, one of Zürich’s loveliest Badis (open-air public baths), built in 1890 in an Art Nouveau-esque Moorish...
...The carpeted space features Venetian-Moorish arches and gothic cornicing, and a shower curtain that was once the lining of a cabana on the Lido in Venice in the 1920s....
...“The Americans came ashore here. It was a bit like the Normandy landings, under heavy Japanese fire,” Des was saying. “Hundreds died on this beach.”...
...In 2019, in his picaresque novel Civilisations, the French author Laurent Binet imagined a history where South and Central Americans “discover” Europe....
...first ever to focus on Matisse in this decade, for its optimistic account of renewal by an artist in his sixties and for European audiences as a rare chance to encounter tremendous paintings acquired by Americans...
...“There are national dishes I don’t care for,” concluded the American visitor I brought with me....
...It’s Moorish-looking, a bit odd,” says Lou, highlighting one of their few interventions to the space – a window within a window “so you can open it without losing the larger picture”....
...The 17th-century Tuscan palazzo of Sammezzano, with its ornate Moorish Revival flourishes, was a fitting location for Dior to showcase its latest couture collection – a whimsical fairytale of brocade and...
...Queen Charlotte may have been of mixed race — some historians have suggested that she was descended from Alfonso III of Portugal and his Moorish concubine Ouruana, but it is not certain (she is played in...
...The biggest spenders are the American, Chinese and Russian tourists, whose likely absence this summer will hurt everything from high-end hotels to luxury goods purveyors such as Louis Vuitton....
...Jean-Léon Gérôme, for instance, specialised in harem scenes: in “Moorish Bath” a bare-breasted black servant attends a marmoreal mistress....
...She cites the American architect Philip Johnson, creator of New York’s AT&T building and other “PoMo” landmarks. “He used to laugh as he said ‘I’m a bad architect’.”...
...Edward Said, the late Palestinian-American academic, identified Lewis as a manufacturer of the stereotypical myths the west used to justify dominance of the east....
...Palazzo Forcella De Seta, a labyrinth of Moorish rooms with mosaic inlays and frescoes, stages two very effective investigative films, both by campaigners....
...Meanwhile, a whitewashed, Moorish-style five-bedroom villa on a 2.5-hectare plot close to José Ignacio, with a sauna, hot tub and unobstructed sea views is offered for $7.5m, through Engel & Völkers....
...The club’s interior is dark and ornate, decorated in extravagant Moorish style....
...But they all pretty much agree that you must go both to the Plaza de España, built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, and then to the Alcázar — a beautiful Moorish fort that subsequently became a...
...Men lift a replica of a boat, known as a Moorish galleon, during celebrations ahead of the Feast Day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, in the Brooklyn borough of New York....
...… My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories, by David Lebovitz, Ten Speed Press, RRP£28/$35 Another book, by another American writer, about cooking in Paris?...
...You think you know what to expect but Lebovitz has plundered the city’s ethnic influences and has come up with a string of fresh Spanish, Levantine, Moorish and Indian-inspired dishes....
...The town hall, the last place the couple visited that lost summer morning, is now almost restored to its mock-Moorish splendour of 1914....
...And as with the American, the first decade of the 20th century saw Sorolla in demand as a portrait painter to the beau monde....
...Trujillo’s majestic granite hill is crowned by a 10th-century Moorish castle, albeit with several subsequent facelifts, built on Roman foundations....
...“My greatest challenge as an American has involved developing the capacity to drop into a foreign setting and feel comfortable functioning smoothly and successfully,” he says....
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