Hints and tips:
...I suspected that Victoria Wood might be quiet. I met her a few times and was struck by how bashful she seemed given her volume of work....
...The second course was roast kingfish with curry leaf and a tamarind and tomato sauce, which went well with a 2022 Pinot Gris with notes of apple, followed by dry aged duck with plum and confit leg....
...I’ve just made some blackberry jam that will sit beautifully in a home-made Victoria Sandwich. Everyone likes cake. Especially if it’s home-made....
...The Grand Duchess Kirill of Russia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, praised her children’s nanny Marian Burgess for her service throughout the 1917 Russian Revolution....
...Previously Britain’s longest reigning monarch was Victoria, who lasted 63 years and seven months before her death in 1901....
...Its current focus is on Westminster’s Victoria Tower Gardens, where the government wants to build a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre....
...Returning from an arduous walk taken alone, the narrator goes to look for her mother in the town, finding her carrying a bag of “rice, hot curry”....
...The latter was a bag of curry powder which she recalls opening rather too fast (“Oh my God, I’ve just inhaled Scott’s last provisions!”)....
...A white-enamelled oven turned out pot pies, vegetable bakes and Victoria sponges, a nod to the city’s British past; rotis, naans and slow-roasted Bengali delicacies came from a clay chulha by its side, mingling...
...(The £72,000 purchase price was used by the government to create Victoria Park in Hackney.) Stafford engaged Robert Smirke to add the top floor....
...Victoria sponge, Battenberg cake and apple Charlotte have what in common? Traditional British sausages vary by region....
...A wedge of Victoria sponge or a jug of lemonade always tastes better when you’re fending off an army of safari ants or battling the Rift Valley elements....
...Scott was certainly keen to curry royal favour. But he had other reasons to look to the Highlands for symbols of Scotland....
...That is certainly the case at A Wong, near London’s Victoria, where Andrew Wong now runs the kitchens of his parents’ former restaurant....
...The atmosphere is warm and homely, with a Chilean chef cooking hearty meals of beef curry and apple strudel and an honesty bar where a G&T costs £1.50....
...Manchester Victoria Station, closed since Monday night because of the bombing at the adjacent Arena, is expected to reopen on Tuesday....
...Eating out at the local curry house was a huge treat. This turned out to be useful financial advice of an indirect sort....
...He demonstrated its resilience in person by dipping it into a tray of chicken curry at a food market....
...Photographs: Victoria Birkinshaw...
...St François is part of the Alphonse group of coral atolls that lie 400km south-west of the Seychellois capital Victoria....
...In an earlier version, Sophy Roberts wrongly referred to Boeing 747s landing at Victoria Falls international airport....
...Curry, however gives his a going-over with some sort of implement....
...Two weeks ago, winemaker Rollo Crittenden of Crittenden Estate in Victoria went to the eastern French region of Jura for the first time — all because of a mistake in labelling vine cuttings sent to Australia...
...Sausages with mash and onion gravy sat next to a green curry. Fish in a potato-topped pie or a rich tomatoey stew....
...Dress over everything with the shallots, chives, verjus and olive oil and place a few deep fried curry leaves around the plate....
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