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...A single fat raviolo of roast veal sweetbreads was lifted, on a small plinth of fondant celeriac, over a puddle of rich sherry velouté....
...Top lots included a 60-year-old Macallan, sold by Whisky Auctioneer for £1mn; a 55-year-old Yamazaki Japanese malt, sold by Whisky Hammer for £380,000; and a one-of-a-kind 51-year-old Bowmore sold by Sotheby...
...In April a cask of 1988 Macallan sold to a private buyer through Whisky Hammer for just shy of £1mn – a record at the time....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Jiu in Beijing...
...Such proposals could represent a hammer blow to China’s ambitions, particularly because its “Made in China 2025” blueprint — an industrial initiative that has unnerved policymakers in both the US and Europe...
...When I arrived in Oxford aged 18 in October 1988, it was still a very British and quite amateurish university, shot through with dilettantism, sexual harassment and sherry....
...Reporting by Charles Clover, Yuan Yang, Bryan Harris, Xinning Liu and Sherry Ju...
...So Sherry Tilton writes down everything she spends....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing Twitter: @HornbyLucy...
...The crackdown on the four companies, all of which enjoy close connections to the Chinese elite, comes as senior members of the ruling Communist party retreat to a beach resort to hammer out who will hold...
...“Of course, if someone buys a kitchen knife that’s OK, but if the person also buys a sack and a hammer later, that person is becoming suspicious,” said the Cloud Walk spokesman....
...“It still takes time to hammer out many details of implementing the rules, and we are in close consultation with Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, and are optimistic about the process,” Didi said....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju * An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed what may emerge at the autumn congress in Beijing to Bonnie Glaser....
...Some vin jaune will be squirrelled away in cellars, where it can live to a grand old age (a bottle from 1928 went under the hammer at this year’s traditional auction of old bottles) but much will be uncorked...
...Anthony Demetre chef and co-owner, Arbutus and Wild Honey Discovering that I had coeliac disease was a massive hammer blow....
...In one study, experimenters asked subjects to work with robots on team-building exercises, then handed them a hammer and demanded they destroy them. They refused....
...While guests ate a very Angeleno breakfast of egg-white frittata and crispy kale, Armani-clad Maria Shriver presented her friend Oprah Winfrey with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award....
...Yes, there have been loads of useless emcees (hello, MC Hammer) and terrible lyrics (Kanye West: “Don’t try to treat me like I ain’t famous/ Apologies, are you into astrology?...
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