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...Job moves Calpers, the biggest pension fund in the US, has named Stephen Gilmore as its investment chief. He was previously the top executive at sovereign wealth fund New Zealand Superannuation Fund....
...Other Germanic treats include spicy liptauer cheese, which Paul makes fresh alongside prawn mayo, mackerel pâté – “nice with pickled cucumber” – and roast topside of beef....
...In The Battle for Christmas (1988), historian Stephen Nissenbaum argues that Beecher Stowe, born in 1811, was correct in her childhood recollections....
...Robert Carrier’s pâté aux herbes is a right little belter. It’s based on finely ground pork but flavoured with great handfuls of herbs and dyed green with spinach....
...There is the celeriac remoulade that customers expect on Fridays, and the dense, gamey pâté de campagne that is made in-house ($19.95/lb). But for Gurdal, it’s all about relationships....
..., cabbage-stuffed grouse with sour cream, Robert Carrier’s pâté aux herbes and, yes, beef shin goulash “Gay Hussar”....
...This general store-cum-café, founded by Calvin Holt, Stephen Bruce and Preston Caradine, was an apt bolthole for Warhol, full of madcap energy and a sense of its own myth....
...He is described on the plaque as “author and wit”, and Darley appreciates his witticisms, indulgently quoting: “My idea of heaven is eating paté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.”...
...“It’s gearboxes versus pâté,” joked one official. “The government would have to choose and that’s why the government would have to own the shipping capacity.”...
...If you’re a little thin on top you might find your pate rubbed with a swindler’s hair-restoring tonic....
...Andrew Hill ——————————————- ECONOMICS Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W Calomiris and Stephen H Haber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35...
...The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an amiable dash through the clichés of high school insecurity written and directed by Stephen Chbosky from his own novel....
...I’m trying to do a smoked mackerel pâté. I need to get it perfect and it’s not quite there yet. I already have a salmon mousse on the menu. Until the pâté is better than that, there’s no point in it....
...The man sluices water over his pate! Another, younger man comes to him. There is ominous talk of atrocity and execution....
...Hull coach John Kear’s bald pate, the most distinctive in the game, conceals formidable contents....
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