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...It comes in a variety of flavours: a plain semi-wholewheat version made from ancient solina and saragolla dark flours from Abruzzo, as well as white flour and potato; tomato, rosemary and capers; black olives...
...They stopped to stare, with black kneecaps and blazed faces, nubby horns pushing at their skulls like snowdrops breaking out of the ground....
...the lack of diversity in the field of exploration, which tends to be male, white, ex-military and upper middle class....
...They need to balance the other elements of the pastel accordingly — the binder, the fillers — and handle with care....
...The ending asks difficult questions about inclusivity, consensus and the way we handle dissent....
...Whereas Japanese craftspeople in Arita, a centre for fine porcelain, made their bowls and jars to shine by themselves (a jar with ceramic plum blossom applied in relief is notable), Europeans felt that they...
...Wang spoons the soaked yellow soyabeans into a hole in the upper stone and turns the wooden handle....
...I’d heard of a house where Speke, Stanley, Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton all stayed; I’d been transfixed by tales of latticed balconies and Ali Baba jars in the African heart of the Omani Empire....
...Once your newspaper shell is dry and you have removed the balloon, add sweets and decorate with orange crepe paper, plus black-and-white pieces for eyes and a mouth. Do not forget party bags....
...“It’s soulful,” says Foutz of his stock, which at any one time could include a classic and highly collectable 19th-century Navajo blanket or a midcentury black-on-black ceramic vessel from San Ildefonso...
...Well-bred white Mississippians saw life one way; their black maids saw an utterly different reality....
...I am currently having more works framed by Harry, this time for my home, including eight prints of simple, graphic black and white Picasso line drawings....
...Shoppers left feedback on white comment cards hung to the wall: “It would be even better if there were more things in the bulk section,” wrote one. “Funnels needed for decanting into jars!”...
...The fermented black soyabeans used in black bean sauce have a robust savoury flavour and have been made in China for more than 2,000 years: just a few can lift the flavour of a plain stir-fried green....
...Marco Pierre White and others have retired....
...It is beautifully crafted out of dark stained oak and sycamore, but its trapezoid shape is essentially spare and linear, and the ivory handles simple (€250,000–€350,000)....
...The garnishes and sauces that make a dish interesting are assembled quickly from all those jars of prepared stuff....
...The walls are full of framed black and white music images; my favourites are the ones of Jimi Hendrix....
...Add the whole lobster(s) and simmer for five minutes. Remove and set aside. When cool enough to handle, cut the lobster in half lengthways....
...You can go wild, but I’ve stayed basic: one clove of garlic and 2.5g each of fennel seed and black pepper....
...Salt-and-vinegar pistachios 100g peeled pistachios 5g salt 15g pickled walnut juice (from a jar of pickled walnuts) ● Preheat the oven to 170C....
...The teacups have no handles and the accompanying snacks are not buttered crumpets but grilled Hangzhou snake. After a short walk along the river one comes to a high wall protecting a temple complex....
...Add the vinegar and chilli to the jar with a little salt, close the lid and shake well, then put to one side....
...Nine perfect square cabinets containing groups of vessels here, lined in plaster, lead and burnt oak, and gradated from white to the velvety black “From Zero 9”, housing a single pot, play on Malevich’s...
...With its arched handles, cornet-shaped neck, layered bell body and squat ovoid base, this Arches Futura vase is typical in its inventive – indeed, futuristic – combination of geometric forms....
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