Hints and tips:
...A customer wants a selfie, and he obliges before apologising, “It’s just because I’m famous, you know.”...
...The grooming staple I’m never without is [Samuel] my cut-throat razor, which I’m quite keen on. But don’t use it in a hurry....
...Finally, this piece in The New Yorker, by Dorothy Wickenden, about the wonderful literary Luddite Wendell Berry and his advice for today’s stressed out era, is just terrific....
...In graduate school, I worked with a writer named Wendell Mayo who taught me what careful revision really looked like....
...I’m fascinated by his use of colours but also by the subjects....
...I’m in lockdown with my mother, which is kind of great actually because she has basically been hoarding food for years....
...I’m a very clean person. I like cleanliness.” It’s all about control. Mr Trump does not drink alcohol, coffee or tea. He does have, according to reports, a 12-can-a-day Diet Coke habit....
...But then it’s chump, chump, chump, chump,” he vocalises the chunky chords he is playing, “I’m coming back, I’m coming back. It’s the groove. The groove is the optimism.”...
...Intel Capital’s head of VCl and M&A Wendell Brooks has resigned. M&A and international investing lead Anthony Lin will steer the organisation until a permanent successor is found....
...I’m not going to waste any time on you.” Wendell Pierce was born in New Orleans in December 1963....
...“I’m not just talking about cooks, it’s also farming and the lorry driver who drives the carrots — the whole chain.”...
...It’s good to learn, from Wendell Steavenson’s review of a Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, November 9) that Britain’s artisan cheesemakers are doing well....
...“I’m so exhausted with jet lag. Sometimes I am happy. Sometimes I come back from a run and I’m all sweaty and people are, like, ‘Selfie Chef!’”...
...So, as the supply of farmed caviar keeps on rising, I’m wondering: why is the price still so high? Last autumn, I met Armen Petrossian for lunch at his eponymous restaurant in Paris....
...Wendell visits Ros’s restaurant, Hisa Franko, in a valley of the Slovenian Alps....
...Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that “[m]illions of lives will be saved” by the suspension of hostilities....
...“I still feel — kind of temporary about myself,” confesses Wendell Pierce’s Willy Loman to the imaginary figure of his successful brother....
...“I’m beyond ready for divisive, racist ideologies and rhetoric that promote violence to be universally rejected, and I’m beyond ready for sensible gun law reforms,” he said....
...M&S was always famous for working directly with suppliers and demanding high standards. The problem is that over the past decade or more M&S has faced plenty of competition....
...Wendell Steavenson asks why we lost our taste for M&S and what that tells us about our changing food preferences....
...“It’s become a career for me over the past few years and I’m excited,” said Mr Allen....
...The sheer volume of M&A activity is ringing alarm bells in Washington and Brussels....
...(CNN) Campaign commentary Trump’s asymmetric warfare (Charles M Blow, NYT) Sanders needs to pack up and go home (Charles P Pierce, Esquire) Trump, Putin and the lure of the strongman (Gideon Rachman,...
...I’m not one to dictate, but personally I see it this way: grow vegetables locally, where they’re freshest; milk and livestock is a regional thing, wherever grazing, processing and distribution are best;...
...Kurt M Campbell is chairman and chief executive of the Asia Group and former assistant secretary of state for east Asia and the Pacific...
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