Hints and tips:
...Come autumn, the leaves of the park’s many horse chestnut trees turn yellow and red, covering the paths in a russet carpet. In late spring, they burst into white flowers....
...They’re by Penkridge Ceramics in England, a studio that makes wonderful glazed fruits and vegetables – tomatoes, chestnuts, pears – and each is one-of-a-kind....
...Lean in to the unknown quantity of the “How” pile: it’s where the real wardrobe magic happens....
...Chestnut trees “fill the courtyards as lungs fill a rib cage, a deep breath of air the lungs”, churches are “the colour of cobwebs”, a brothel’s champagne tastes like “warm feet gone numb”....
...Indeed it’s hard to imagine that people who survived the second world war eating chestnuts, as my grandfather did, would be concerned about using pork jowl instead of pork belly in a pasta recipe....
...Look out for the monthly mystery roll containing an unknown ingredient or combination not yet explored. plushi.co.za Augustine Hammond...
...Once, for example, Tallec found a tree with apples that were as farinaceous and bitter as chestnuts. He tried to brew cider from them, but even after three months it was horrid and undrinkable....
...Even now, when the art world’s mission to rediscover and promote previously unknown or forgotten women artists has brought increasing prominence to her work, it, like her life, is divided into “before and...
...As little as 4ml-5ml of pesticide injected into a horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) might prevent the ugly and damaging impact of horse chestnut leaf mining moth, the pest that has spread across Europe...
...I didn’t know very much about Carl apart from his fashion portfolio, but I was tempted to venture into unknown territory with a photographer from a different discipline....
...In this case it was a handsome Australian with a Ronald Colman moustache, who sized me up and proffered a Negroni, pre-made and aged in a chestnut barrel....
...Slat is skinny, with a mop of chestnut hair and bright blue eyes....
...The only survivors from this wood are three sweet chestnuts, one of which has British bullets embedded in its trunk....
...A decade later, it’s hard to believe that Vasconcelos was ever an unknown....
...Olin has mismatched the planes with horse chestnuts. In the main open space the team has installed a raised narrow pool of blackened water, shallow and waiting for water lilies....
...The real curatorial triumph, however, is the presence of the Alana Collection’s portrait of a young man (1425-27), whose authorship is unknown....
...The lime and chestnut trees are in full leaf; the rolling parkland sparkles emerald-green after a week of torrential rain....
...As soon as the chestnuts are cool enough, peel them and break them into large pieces. Put the sausage meat in a bowl and add the chestnuts....
...“He is unknown, he always pays and he always speaks his own mind,” he says....
...A box with a magic button: press it and you cause an unknown person’s death but win $1m. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden are the anguishing couple with the gift....
...Some beams and floors have been replaced with local chestnut wood and it has permission for a swimming pool in its seven acres....
...To speak of an unknown Renoir is to risk paradox, but this show delivers precisely that....
...characters might be an allegory for the state of contemporary America; that they might have got themselves caught in a time warp; that they are unwitting island-mates in some reality TV show; or - that old chestnut...
...It is an old chestnut and an old canard. Perhaps it is a combination of both: duck with chestnut. Either way it deserves the film equivalent of a Michelin rosette, awarded for enduring inanity....
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