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...I can’t have her cook it now as she’s dead. That would frankly be a mood killer. We eat and drink. There are no awkward silences. No one speaks over me....
...He spent hours with her at night, sitting on her sofa or watching her cook, as they talked about his dreams....
...Certainly, I don’t have time to cook a lamb tagine while doing my job, but then I have to think about what I’m doing.”...
...The collection, designed by Sersale and her niece, Viola Parrocchetti, is handmade by artisans in India: this year’s bestseller is the Anita garden-print maxi, covered in red roses and seahorses....
...The hotel is in the village of Great Milton, eight miles southeast of Oxford Illustration by Matthew Cook Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...There was Johnny Grey, the respected kitchen designer; Simon Hopkinson, cook and author; and William Sitwell, food writer and MasterChef judge....
...I had six large red peppers and four splendid elongated “viola” aubergines. I set about “scorching” the lot, blackening each vegetable to within an inch of its life....
...Maketa taught himself to play the viola and made his first double bass in 1998....
...Cook on a high heat until they colour and wilt slightly and add to the casserole, removing it from the heat. ● Remove the stalks of the tomatoes....
...Starting out where the earlier work had left off, this was also highly atmospheric, its clouds of strings hanging heavy in the air and a solo viola intoning the seafarer’s lonely thoughts as he traverses...
...Remove from the heat, add the remaining ingredients, mix thoroughly and cook the marinade at a low simmer for five minutes. Reserve until needed....
...If I am going to cook an aubergine it has to be what we call a “viola” aubergine, those lovely mauve and white and rather bulbous things that you might see all over Italy but are a great deal harder to find...
...The twins Sebastian and Viola (in her male disguise) buck the general mid-20th-century costuming by dressing like fin-de-siècle Spanish military students....
...Turn the heat down to the lowest possible setting, cover the pot and cook very gently for half an hour. The mixture should now be a jammy consistency, and the ingredients very well amalgamated....
...That’s the point when opera becomes a factory: you take the ingredients out of the fridge and you start to cook, without first thinking what you want to cook....
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