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...Traders will also be looking out for commentary from US Federal Reserve representatives Austan Goolsbee, Raphael Bostic and Lisa Cook....
...Shares in Hermès rose 5.1 per cent, helping the company overtake L’Oréal to become the second most valuable firm in France’s blue-chip Cac 40 index....
...(Alphaville believes that using L’Oréal as an O is cheating, even if it makes your acronym look nicer.)...
...Blanch the pasta one sheet at a time for 30 seconds in a wide pan of highly salted (10g/l) water with the extra virgin olive oil in it....
...Just as beguiling are her trompe l’oeils – edible bites that look like one thing but are actually another....
...From bitter experience my guests know what I like to cook indoors. To change the tone and widen my repertoire, I decided to withdraw to the kitchen and experiment. I am a fundamentalist cook....
...Other stereotypically male sectors have made significantly more progress: just 26 per cent of industrial companies are led by all-male teams, says director of stewardship Jackie Cook....
...News in-depth Stephanie Cohen joined Goldman Sachs straight out of college 25 years ago and became a partner while still in her 30s....
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...All are fired up to white heat in a well-played performance of irresistible, headlong energy from Stephanie Childress and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia....
...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...But Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who heads the second largest prosecutor’s office in the country, covering Chicago and parts of surrounding suburbs, pointed out that a defendant’s ability to pay...
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...Real cooks pit their cherries by hand. After the 1930s, grape scissors suggested a priggish adherence to outmoded decorum....
...According to L’Equipe, PSG ditched plans for a US tour after being offered €20mn to divert to Japan instead....
...“When you think of Sheffield you probably think of a [L S] Lowry painting; that harsh, cold, rugged darkness of industry,” says Mamnick’s Barnett, whose grandfather was a steel forger....
...The best gifts I’ve given recently are the ceramics I’ve been making with a French artist called Stéphanie Larène....
...It’s where we buy most of the ingredients for our restaurants, though it’s well loved by home cooks too....
...At the feast of L-Imnarja, celebrated towards the end of June to commemorate Saints Peter and Paul, candles and bonfires are lit, Maltese folk music is played and the national dish of fenkata (rabbit stew...
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...Similarly, in Jakarta, supper-club host Rahel Stephanie is pulled by the aromatic soup at Soto Mie Pak Kadir Gunung Sahari....
...There’s a strong sense of community, not only between cooks and growers but among locals too....
...“In the city, we lead an active life and don’t have time to cook – when we come [here], Coke makes bread and we go for long walks....
...It was a teenage pastry cook that initially caught Barnes’s attention: “outrageous, fascinating, real, truculent, afflicted with an immense ear, superb, unexpected, and right”....
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