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...Her menu for the Standard will feature Moqueca fish sliders, guava roast duck tacos, plantain fritters with warm chocolate caramel sauce and fruity margaritas made with Casamigos finest Tequila Blanco....
...A farming family poses in the middle distance, haloed by a circle of palm trees and a pen full of ducks....
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...Head pastry chef Jérémy Prakhin has hand-crafted the creature – which is filled with hazelnut gianduja – from chocolate supplied by Valrhona, a luxury French chocolatier based in the small town of Tain-l’...
...It’s most pressing if your pension is with Aviva, Scottish Widows, L&G, Aegon, Phoenix, Nest, Smart Pension, M&G or Mercer....
...Kimchi, artisanal black pudding or a fresh duck egg are popular embellishments....
...“When you ask a restaurant with hundreds of wines and the name of the farm where the duck is from on the menu, ‘What waters do you have?’ the uninspiring answer is, ‘Still or sparkling.’...
...And that might be on the horizon: she and Neal have recently acquired a former duck farm near St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex....
...L’Après-midi d’un faune (1912), choreographed and danced by his lover Nijinsky, climaxed (quite literally) with the Faun lowering himself suggestively on to a stolen scarf....
...The downstairs “Den” room, which I peeked into, has a terrace and a gorgeous trompe-l’oeil autumn-leaf design on the floor that made me briefly wonder if housekeeping had slacked off that day....
...Walking through the streets, you can find some of the best Peking duck and char siu pork, then find yourself at an Italian restaurant serving wonderful fresh pasta....
...We duck behind and enter. Just as he described, the inside of the space seems to expand; mirrors on both sides reflect a grander scale of space....
...Duck breast, pan-fried then rested to the point of coma was served with a spectacular potato cake....
...Caribbean island of St Thomas to French-Jewish merchants, Pissarro did not settle in Paris until 1855, and fell immediately under the influence of Corot’s fresh, delicate realism — his silvery, gentle “Duck...
...What unfolded was a drama fit for the new generation of fans raised on Netflix’s F1 series, with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the sport’s governing body, forced to launch an inquiry and...
...Fittingly, rice-paper lanterns hang from the ceiling over an L-shaped black and white Carrara marble counter surrounding a large open kitchen....
...“Not even Superman could drive growth at Knorr or Hellmann’s to keep up with the growth of L’Oréal or Estée Lauder.”...
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...The consommé Francillon (duck consommé with beetroot) arrives. It has, as Edouard promised, “la nuance d’un rubis foncé et d’une merveilleuse saveur”....
...If he becomes president, Mr Biden will enter office as a lame duck. This has some immediate implications for public health....
...At L’Escargot 30 years ago, we depended on a series of electric lifts to bring the food up from the basement kitchen....
...“Take a crispy-duck pancake. The hoisin is your sauce – no tomatoes required....
...Twitter was full of folks diving into Moby-Dick, sauntering through Dublin’s streets with Mulligan, Dedalus and Bloom, embarking at last upon Lucy Ellmann’s thousand-page epic Ducks, Newburyport....
...Foodies flock to the buzzy gastropub and Michelin scene, mopping up Asian fare at HRiSHi in Windermere, or farm-to-fork food at Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume and the newish Henrock....
...It feels an age ago when our Venice-bound Orient Express sauntered like a countess out of Gare de l’Est. “I hear the right is still rampant,” he shivers....
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