Hints and tips:
...David McWilliams, in his recent piece on James Joyce (Life & Arts, June 11), bemoans “the lazy idea of the indigent creative set against the uninspired commercial”, citing as an example the Irish novelist...
...“I have to tell you I am not a Neil Diamond fan,” confesses Joyce Kulhawik, president of the Boston Theater Critics Association. “The press night was six o’clock on a Sunday evening....
...Joyce and my son Gerolamo love the old Italian songwriters I used to listen to, like Lucio Battisti and Franco Battiato....
...The night in February 2012 that then Labour MP Eric Joyce drank too much sauvignon blanc in The Strangers is Westminster’s own version of the butterfly effect....
...Joyce Molyneux of the Carved Angel [in Dartmouth, Devon] is a brilliant woman, a brilliant chef, and wrote a brilliant cookbook....
...I also love the balance of the lavish and the strict at the Christmas party in James Joyce’s The Dead. Even the condiments suggest an orderly quadrille....
...Turn with some good olive oil before leaving to macerate for an hour. Serve on toast. Photographs: Andy Sewell...
...Drenching it with an absurdly high-quality single-estate olive oil, softly vegetal and shockingly peppery, is sexy, devil-may-care arrogance....
...nicholas.lander@ft.com Photographs: Steve Joyce Jago Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London E1 5JL. 020 3818 3241; jagorestaurant.com...
...We decide to share an appetiser: the ricotta with a tapenade of green and black olives....
...Comparing the creations of Heston Blumenthal to those of Joyce, Picasso and Le Corbusier, Myhrvold celebrates chefs who are “always at the forefront, pushing the boundaries of food and cooking”....
...Christopher Joyce and Adrian Setright bought the hamlet of four houses, in 8.6 acres, nine years ago....
...You will see locals picking mushrooms and chestnuts in the forests, while the wine and olive harvests are celebrated in village festivals....
...But its fears over sovereign frailty are replicated elsewhere in Asia, amid signs of creeping contagion from Europe’s olive belt....
...Place carrots and onions alike in a pan with a teaspoon of sugar, a pinch of salt, just enough water to cover and a tablespoon of butter or olive oil....
...The Infinity of Lists: From Homer to James Joyce By Umberto Eco Quercus £35, 408 pages FT Bookshop price: £28 You know how you’re going to be feeling post-turkey, don’t you? Listless....
...We have friends at Sant’Antimo with a beautiful villa located through olive groves. That’s pretty much an all-time favourite. What was your best holiday?...
...Wholemeal bread doused in olive oil. What makes you cross to read? Flat characterisation. What keeps you awake at night? Not a lot now, except the night before a big review comes out....
...It’s a similar story in Arcos de la Frontera, where the Arcos Gardens Golf Club and Country Estate is being built on a 440-acre site in an old olive grove a five-minute drive from the old town....
...On our way out, he suddenly leads me to another building, half hidden by the olives and cypresses....
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