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...Then cruise the city’s timeworn chigres (rustic bars) such as Casa Lín on Avenida de Colón and Casa Pachu on Calle Alfonso III el Magno, where the cider flows freely along with platters of fabes con almejas...
...Prestel, £40, published in April) Superdry wool jumper, £54.99, zalando.co.uk Louis Vuitton monogram canvas Cotteville 40 suitcase, £5,650 Borsalino felt and grosgrain Giacomo Marengo hat, £245 Fendi x Noel...
...Blanc prescribes a “heavy cleaver, for instance”, but foreseeing trouble, I asked a seriously skilled cook, the Latvian chef of the fashion king Leon Max....
...That former police station now houses the Frente 5 de Marzo, one of the political groups that consider themselves the keepers of socialism’s sacred flame....
...Consider the French inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, who patented a sound recording device in 1857, almost a generation before Edison began working on his phonograph....
...‘Willie’s Chocolate Bible’ by Willie Harcourt Cooze, is published by Hodder & Stoughton (£25) … Laurie Gear’s chocolate and chestnut Christmas roulade This is my version of the famous Bûche de Noël which...
...Lots of crunchy fruit. 14% £7.49 Marks & Spencer Léon Beyer Sylvaner 2009 Alsace Steely and lively. Firm and dry....
...Steely and not a trace of sweetness. £17.95 Noel Young and many others Dom d’Estoublon 2008 Vin de Pays des Alpilles Mineral, nervy and exciting with a hint of honeysuckle aromas too....
...Stolarski Fine Wines Les Caves de Pyréne Luvians Bottleshop Marks & Spencer Majestic Wine Martinez Wines Noel Young Wines Oddbins OW Loeb & Co Roberson Wine Sainsbury’s Sawines Selfridges Smiling...
...The wines will be equally impressive: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 1998; Leon Beyer’s 2001 Riesling Cuvée des Ecaillers; a 2003 Batard-Montrachet from Jean-Noël Gagnard and a first-growth...
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