Hints and tips:
...Debauve was the royal pharmacist and official chocolatier to Marie Antoinette. Or so the story goes....
...So, mid-party, if a friend wants you to play a tune they have on their phone, they can play it (silently) over Bluetooth into the unit, which analyses and stores it for incorporation....
...I have visited another Whitby haunt (The White Horse and Griffin) in winter but it has changed chefs since my last visit so I felt I couldn’t in good conscience recommend that either....
...With its low lighting, vintage furnishings and cool shop girls – among them a 15-year-old Anna Wintour – the store attracted stars such as Twiggy and Brigitte Bardot, before closing in 1975....
...“It’s cool to have money again,” said Sandra, a 43-year-old fitness enthusiast shopping at luxury department store Aïshti....
...Many African countries use state-owned central medical stores such as Gabon’s OPN....
...“It’s very clever, but I don’t believe that these re-releases are going to be a long-term relaunch,” says Robert Burke, a retail consultant and former senior vice-president at New York department store Bergdorf...
...To others, it was a sinister move, a conspiracy to abuse the NHS’s unique store of 55mn health records....
...The official photograph of the event, however, contains obvious gaps. Mao’s close acolytes, known as The Gang of Four, were expunged. You’re supposed to notice....
...So let’s finish this with the thing that tends to obsess people in Washington and I think in Australia, to some extent, in official circles: the hard power stuff....
...(Last year the city pledged to stop serving meat at official events.)...
...My sister and I sat across from chef Cécile Lévy at the kitchen counter, mesmerised....
...An excellent chef will keep a pot of spoons as kingpin of the mise en place. My own sit next to my stove, in a jam jar: half a dozen Naafi spoons picked up in a surplus store....
...The last meal that truly impressed me was at Dinner with Friends, the dinner party series hosted by Peter Sanchez-Iglesias, Decimo’s executive chef, at The Standard in London....
...Those who attempted true tributes to Gilded Age fashion did so with clever modernising tweaks....
...“When you pull a tribe together that wasn’t a tribe before, magic happens,” says Anna Bjurstam, whose official title at Six Senses is “wellness pioneer”....
...Rumours on Thursday of a possible lockdown sent thousands back to stores in a wave of panic-buying....
...In Paris’s La Samaritaine department store, you’ll hear words such as “strong”, “secure”, “protected” and “empowered” when swapping changing-room chatter with Gauchere enthusiasts....
...The losses were especially unbearable for parents who had had to obey the official one-child policy....
...And now next door to the furniture shop is Household, a home furnishing and decorative accessories store....
...Swoop, according to its app store page, “aims to be the crypto Fantasy Cricket app for India”. A noble enough aim, we suppose....
...“Some nannies will be expected to cook all their child’s meals, others will be tasked with making instructions to a chef,” Hunt told me....
...Her official title is Lady Bamford....
...Think “Brazilian footballer”, “French chef” or even “Tibetan monk”....
...Lilah RaptopoulosAs regular listeners and wine fans know, Jancis Robinson is the FT’s official wine critic and also among the most influential wine experts in the world....
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