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...“Drink wines lower in alcohol,” says Dalston Wine Club founder Hannah Crosbie, who recommends Can Sumoi’s 11 per cent La Rosa (£22, shrinetothevine.co.uk)....
...There’s also the lovably Dickensian Arthur Bacon, the son of Stalin’s London landlord, in whom the Communists from Georgia plant dreams of equality....
...In the Whymperstube restaurant you can eat a Whymper-Teller, a SFr29 (£23) plate of beef, ham, bacon and cheese....
...Cockney caterer Rosa Lewis escaped her service background by using success in the male-dominated world of haute cuisine to climb the social ladder, eventually receiving acclaim as “England’s greatest woman...
...Having been driven at high speed past his favourite truck stop for egg and bacon sandwiches, he was cheered by Rita van Lill’s report that “our oven is already hot”. A chicken pie had been promised....
...“I chose lentils because it was the humblest ingredient and if people don’t like the dish I can blame the lentils,” joked Chang, who fermented them to make a miso as a base for a soup topped with bacon and...
...Roman Abramovich, the Russian businessman and owner of Chelsea football club, has bought works by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, reportedly spending an eye-watering $120m in one 24-hour period....
...Neither Andrew nor Mark put in an appearance at the Madoff firms’ Christmas party at the First Avenue branch of Rosa Mexicano that night, but Bernie Madoff did....
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