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Crab and sea vegetable fritters
Delicate, slightly salty seashore vegetables like sea spinach, sea purslane, sea aster and samphire make great little fritters. Combined with crab they work as a lovely dinner-party starter or a snack at a drinks ...
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School of chop Learning the art of butchery at the Ginger Pig
On a chill March night, we were in the gleaming premises of the Ginger Pig butcher's shop in well-heeled Marylebone, which provides courses in beef, pork, and sausage as well as lamb. A glass-walled cold store with an array of dangling beef worth thousands provided a backdrop that was more Francis Bacon than Rembrandt. Eventually a volunteer came forward and was guided round the ovine ...
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Kaspars Seafood Bar Grill The Savoy London
A manager stands, tapping at a plinth-mounted iPad, like a synth-pop artist on a late-Seventies edition of Top of the Pops. He looks up briefly, then returns to his screen with renewed focus. What can he be doing? Sending an email? Updating Facebook? Bashing out the instrumental break to "Vienna"? Finally, reluctantly, he tears his eyes from the screen to deal with the couple, who no ...
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Tomatoes and crab on toast
A slice of hot buttered toast with juicy, ripe tomatoes is a pleasurable and simple snack - transform it into a thing of luxury by topping it with freshly-picked crab ...
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Grilled courgettes with crab and chilli
British-grown courgettes are starting to hit the market now and I always find you get the most flavour out of them if they are sliced and grilled. It works especially well when you combine them with the delicate flavour of crab and a little kick of ...
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Crab and asparagus broth
I hate throwing things away and the thought of a potential meal going in the bin is more than a little depressing. Turning your crab shells into a broth is a great way tof prevent such a sorry event, and makes for an excellent ...
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Wine Something for the weekend
2010 Tesco Simply Garnacha, Bodegas Borsao You only get 30p's worth of wine after tax and costs in a 5 bottle, but this bright Spanish Beaujolais-alike delivers a gluggy quaffability. 4.99, ...
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Anthony Rose An Italian wine revival
Which wine country has the greatest capacity to confuse, irritate, reward, inspire and delight? Got it in one: Italy. It's not surprising for a country of 20 wine regions stretching from the Alps to the Mediterranean. Adding to the confusion, Wine Grapes (Allen Lane, 120) a scholarly new work co-authored by Jancis Robinson MW, tells us that Italy leads the world in the number of ...
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Shanghai looks for next sports icons
/enpproperty--> Yao Ming has retired. Liu Xiang has an injured Achilles tendon and his future is up in the air, so who will be the next sporting superstar from Shanghai? According to the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, he or she may be among 3,000 talented youngsters the city has chosen to develop their skills. The birthplace of former NBA center Yao and star hurdler Liu is ...
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Wine Something for the weekend
2010 Tesco Simply Garnacha, Bodegas Borsao You only get 30p's worth of wine after tax and costs in a 5 bottle, but this bright Spanish Beaujolais-alike delivers a gluggy quaffability. 4.99, ...
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Tomatoes and crab on toast
A slice of hot buttered toast with juicy, ripe tomatoes is a pleasurable and simple snack - transform it into a thing of luxury by topping it with freshly-picked crab ...
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Crab and asparagus broth
I hate throwing things away and the thought of a potential meal going in the bin is more than a little depressing. Turning your crab shells into a broth is a great way tof prevent such a sorry event, and makes for an excellent ...
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How long can the Keep Calm trend carry on
While various theories exist as to what that figure might represent or where it might have originated, barely anyone knew or cared about its history as they scribbled it on a desk or a wall. It was just a thing.A thing they'd seen other people draw, and now they were going to draw it, too. It was a cultural oddity that lasted decades, but eventually, slowly, it died out - in the same way we ...
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Motherlode Blog A Billionaire on Working Mothers Babies Kill Women’s Focus
Every so often, someone -- usually, but not always, an older white man -- decides to gather up his favorite old stereotype about women, dust it off, polish it up and give it a fresh airing. This time around, it’s a hedge-fund billionaire. Paul Tudor Jones told an audience of University of Virginia students, alumni and others last month that when it comes to the laser focus needed to ...
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Kosovo moves against restaurants holding wild bears
PRIZREN, Kosovo (Reuters) - Kosovo has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country's mountainous border ...
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Miami Diving hopes TV’s ‘Splash’ brings new interest in sport
Can a television competition show tell the story of diving?Briadam Herrera, 17, laughs at the question as he stands on the sun-baked pool deck at the University of Miami in Coral ...
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Possessed Graffito in Jerry Mitchell’s Bedroom Is a Daily Reminder
Not Jerry Mitchell, the director and choreographer of the new musical "Kinky Boots." He has been so single-minded in his pursuit of upbeat Broadway bravura that one would scarcely be surprised to learn that he had choreographed his own birth. ("Breathe kick, push kick, five, six, seven, ...
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T Magazine All the Rage | Japanese Whiskey Takes Manhattan
Suntory’s Hibiki 12-year whiskey with a food pairing by the chef David Bouley, served at an event at Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. Over the past week, hordes of bartenders, distillers, liquor reps and booze hounds have descended thirstily upon New York City for the fourth ...
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Trying to Turn a Castle Into a Cash Register
Highclere Castle who pay the $27 admission fee, buy the $14.50 guidebooks and don't leave without souvenirs like a $23 polo shirt with Highclere Castle etched on the ...
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Cynthia Nixon’s Embrace of Political Activism
Cynthia Nixon speaking this month at a fund-raiser, joined by, from left, Alan Cumming, Bill de Blasio and Mr. de Blasio's wife, Chirlane ...
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Penguin exhibit at Floridas SeaWorld will get 10 tons of snow daily
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - SeaWorld Orlando opened its "Antarctica: Empire of the Penguins" on Friday, a new attraction that will be coated with 10 tons of fresh snow each ...
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Intensive sports training school eyes national expansion
Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John ...
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Exclusive Non-Olympic sports organisation is at a crossroads but we can succeed says Presidential candidate Chiulli
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Letters Joyce Robertsons films had a huge impact on trainee social workers
Joyce Robertson and her husband James had a huge impact on me as a trainee social worker in 1969 and still inform my views on childcare and parenting. They deserved a much wider audience: the messages in them are still relevant for every carer who looks after very young children.I was once told that the film about "John", a powerful study of the breakdown, in a very short time, of a ...
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HM King Hamad Congratulates Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad on Sport Achievement in 18th Arab Athletics Championship
Manama, May 24 (BNA)--His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa held a telephone call today with First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport and President of Bahrain Athletics Association Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa. HM congratulated him on the National Athletics Team's ability to grab third place, in general, in the 18th Arab Athletics Championship which was ...
Tajikistan Focus
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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