Hints and tips:
...The menu is classic St John (devilled kidneys on toast, roast bone marrow and parsley salad, chicken and trotter pie) with a nod to the glitz of their temporary home (“A Tin of Caviar”)....
...squarish jackets with towering shoulders that ended somewhere around the knees; and shrunken tracksuits that assumed ridiculous proportions when teamed with a new supersized trainer that riffed on the Triple S....
...It began in earnest with 2004’s The Grey Album, a “mash-up” record that combined Jay-Z’s vocals from The Black Album (2003) with tracks based on samples from The Beatles’ 1968 self-titled LP, often called...
...That being said, he’s more than happy to blare back episodes of Radio 4’s In Our Time at full tilt (who could possibly take umbrage at a loud Lord Melvyn Bragg?)...
...The best bakery is I dolci di Nonna Vincenza, just behind the Cattedrale of S Agata....
...Middle England , by Jonathan Coe, Viking, RRP£16.99 Brexit-laced novels may be à la mode, but Coe’s “serio-comic” investigation into Englishness goes back way further than 2016’s referendum....
...Ever the S-G, at one stage Annan turns round and asks if we are all OK. When 10 minutes later we land in bright sunlight, he looks at the pilot. “You did not tell us a word....
...Half a millennium ago in the tiny backwater of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, a revolution took place in sacred art....
...A man I know only as “002” lifts a Globe-Trotter case on to the table. Small but beautiful, the case is designed specifically for socks in transit....
...Married couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are not as famous as Poirot or Marple or even Trotter (The Mousetrap), but a sense of occasion attends the launch of BBC1’s detective serial Partners in Crime...
...It hopes that China will approve the import of pigs’ trotters — a “potentially huge” market, according to the Federation....
...For instance, the Chinese have for centuries eaten ears, hearts, trotters, tails, spleen and offal.”...
...offal, trotters and other culinary delights to China, the world’s biggest pig meat market, under a breakthrough trade deal to be sealed as early as next week, according to the FT....
...S. Gilbert wrote the libretto, Peckham was still a leafy village in the country – a hideaway for the middle classes....
...A s most of us sometimes do, I pined the other day for Provence and I found that, even before I left home to write an essay about the place, my mind was full of Provençeness....
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