Hints and tips:
...Look especially for low-growing beans. One of the best is the dwarf runner Hestia, a bean that will thrive in a bucket. Its crop has the fine flavour of runner beans without need for tall stakes....
...Tesco famously rowed with Unilever over the price of Marmite in 2016, and went without baked beans and ketchup in an argument with Heinz in 2022. Who wins such stand-offs?...
...He noted with admiration how everyone sang as they worked, be it planting haricot beans or pulling in fishing nets....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...His outrageous online creations include desserts that look like comfort food (such as beans on toast or pizza); desserts that resemble food gone bad (like a mouldy satsuma); and desserts that look like cleaning...
...They also shared a cool sensibility, a facility with visual and verbal quips, and a fondness for trompe-l’oeil trickery....
...When you listen to him and read his book L’Art de Nourrir, he manages to inject poetry in everything he does....
...L’arbore di Diana (Diana’s Tree) is a satirical comedy, a political allegory, and a steamy tale of sex and transgression....
...For example, I love coffee as much as the next American, but I know that a man with a manual bean grinder is an embassy’s worth of red flags....
...Website; Directions L’Arbre à Café 10 Rue du Nil, 75002 Paris L’Arbre à Café, a hole-in-the-wall spot that brews some of the best coffee in town, has been a favourite of mine for more than 10 years....
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...Tiffany & Co gold and jade Elsa Peretti Bean necklace, £22,711. Tights and vintage shoes, handpainted by John Hurley....
...The pantry includes produce such as tomatoes, broad beans, capers, olives, ricotta, pasta and fish, especially mahi-mahi. “It’s old-world cooking,” says Bajada. No fancy kitchen skills....
...We’ve gone big on the veg patch and had great broad beans this year....
...At L’Enclume, he got his agricultural know-how running the restaurant farm. He also sourced ceramics for service....
...And my Vanilla Bean is a trompe-l’oeil pastry that you cut into to reveal a variety of textures....
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...Finally, modern private equity is adept at shunting risk capital on to the tax-deductible debt side of the P&L....
...An L-shaped backyard in London is not Sissinghurst and I will never be Vita Sackville-West, however whimsical my summer wardrobe becomes....
...Oli recommends going with a big group so you can taste more of the menu (the sweet red bean soup is a favourite dish of his). Moxie is a new restaurant by Shane Osborn, a longtime friend of mine....
...Veronica porphyriana, a deciduous mat-forming perennial that sends up electric blue-violet flower spikes in spring, is from central Asia and southern Siberia....
...You enter at the magic wardrobe of Jean Marcel’s “Armoire Surréaliste”, with its panels giving on to trompe l’oeil blue skies, and follow Dorothea Tanning’s nightmare corridor of locked doors and outlandish...
...Fittingly, rice-paper lanterns hang from the ceiling over an L-shaped black and white Carrara marble counter surrounding a large open kitchen....
...Then four clay bowls containing what looked to be Indian vegetable korma, Arabic hummus, Zanzibari kidney beans and African porridge....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
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