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...overwhelmed now seem to have moved on – to Puglia, Ischia, wherever their algorithms steer them – meaning that if you pick the right season (now, for instance), Cortona’s medieval market-square charms and Val...
...“Everything slows down,” says Val of the family’s trips there. “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....
...My favourite dish to make is spaghetti all’arrabbiata, but simple things are hard to cook. The secret of a good tomato sauce is the time it takes to cook it; you need time to do something simple....
...From the massifs of the Val Badia to Calabria’s ancient gorges and villages, his Italian walking tours go deep and delightful on local nature, lore, and gastronomy....
...Rates to be set; nihi.com First tracks in Val Thorens For those who can’t wait to get their ski season started, Val Thorens, the Alps’ highest resort, is the place to start....
...Last year’s event assembled four chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants to cook at an eatery on the side of Mont Blanc, accessed by the resort’s famous Skyway cable car....
...It’s just sort of plateaued,” Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, told reporters last week....
...Val Gibson, a much-loved maternal figure who runs the North Ormesby Community Hub, has seen that kind of fallout every day....
...It rained overnight in the Val d’Arno....
...Val Hennessy has been refused business rates relief for International House Bristol, a language school she founded in 1987....
...Thus began Cook the Mountain, a combination research project/cultural initiative/fine-dining experience unique to St Hubertus....
...A special pleasure is the historic house at La Foce, in the Val d’Orcia, former home of the writer Iris Origo, where she and her Italian husband created a magnificent garden whose terraces overlook the wide...
.... £1,400; eggtrading.com And the best gift I’ve given recently was a trip to 7132 Therme, the spa at Vals, in Switzerland, to my office....
...There’s the inevitable supply of vegetable broth that I cook every weekend....
...Of course, Afriski is never going to rival Val d’Isère, but for an unusual weekend, or an anomalous diversion on an African holiday, it is hard to beat....
...Even if you do not want to bother with price comparison websites, it is always worth phoning your existing provider says Val Hamilton, a university worker in her 50s....
...Details Sugar Beach, a Viceroy Resort, has double rooms from $510 a night, including tax viceroyhotelsandresorts.com Illustration by Matthew Cook...
...He spent time as a camp cook and trail guide, trained as a Buddhist monk and then worked as a sherpa....
...Every day, they cook up one vegetarian set menu — Thai curries or spinach pies, followed by tofu cheesecake, say — accompanied by coffees, teas and other cakes....
...“Ginni is not a throw-things-around-the-room kind of person, but she lets you know when you’re not moving fast enough,” says Val Rahmani, a former IBM executive who worked with Ms Rometty while she was building...
...I have a new book being published in May, I’m off to Australia in March for the Melbourne Food Festival and I have a TV programme called ‘Hook It, Cook It’, which I’m co-hosting with my mate Val Warner,...
...When it was a case of my starving or learning to cook, I turned to consult her on how to cook scrambled eggs....
...And feeding this rich cuisine, she explains, are a great civilisation, a fertile countryside, cultural complexity and, finally, a refined palace life, where royal patronage allowed cooks to take these dishes...
...Roger and Val wind each other up and let each other down, but conflict usually gives way to compromise....
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