The drinks master: Marcis Dzelanis on why you need to reconsider the virtues of cognac September 12, 2018 When you ask people about Cognac it often conjures up images of gentleman’s clubs, mahogany furniture, leather bound books and postprandial cigars. But Cognac is starting to shake off its stuffy image, with a new breed of producers embracing a dynamic approach to how the spirit is produced. They are challenging the conventional wisdoms, such [...]
Here’s what to do with your old watermelon skins, turn them into a watermelon preserve September 12, 2018 In South Africa, Waatlemoen konfyt is as normal to them as Branston Pickle is to us. I first came across this preserve in the Ken Forrester vineyard restaurant, 96 Winery Road, in Stellenbosch outside Cape Town. It was served with cheese and it was a completely new experience to me. Following on from last week’s [...]
Weekly Grill: Nathan Outlaw on baking ‘dead fly biscuits’ as a child and falling in love with mackerel September 12, 2018 WHO ARE YOU? I’m Nathan Outlaw, dad, chef, restaurateur, writer of cookbooks and aspiring Jedi! Mostly, I cook seafood. I have a restaurant in Dubai and three in the UK including Outlaw’s at The Capital in London. I also write cook books. And I post lots of pictures on Instagram. WHAT'S NEW? Exciting things are [...]
More of the same from Apple? September 11, 2018 | City Talk Earlier this year Apple made history in becoming the first US company to achieve a $1trn valuation, a level it maintained when it crossed above $207 a share last month. Since then the share price moved up to as high as $229.67 earlier this month, before embarking on a four-day slide prompted by some profit-taking, [...]
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Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt at the V&A review: A fascinating deep dive into videogame design and culture September 7, 2018 Exhibitions about videogames frequently land wide of the mark. Either they’re bogged down in dusty arcade nostalgia – that decades old aesthetic of Pac-Man pixel art and bleepy chiptunes that just won’t go away – or they have the desperate air of a culturally sidelined medium crying out to be taken seriously by art critics. [...]
American Animals review: An audacious and twisting heist movie September 7, 2018 Director Bart Layton is the man behind 2012’s audacious docu-thriller The Imposter, about a French con artist who bamboozles a Texan family into believing he is their long lost son. The film braided fact and fiction into a chunky dramatic rope, drawing on talking head testimony from the real world players, interspersed with very credible [...]
Interiors: Here are the high street brands winning a PETA Innovation Award for venturing into vegan homeware September 7, 2018 Let’s face it – if we saw where our meat comes from, most of us would be appalled. While some choose to the look the other way, others have turned to veganism and the stars of the US Open showed us this week that it’s a lifestyle that’s just as much about health as it [...]
Holiday Homes: Morocco is re-fashioning itself into a hotspot for the international polo crowd with houses to match September 7, 2018 In pride of place on the wall of the Jnan Amar Polo Club in Marrakech is a picture of Sir Richard Branson. Taken in 2014, it shows the grinning Virgin mogul at the first British Polo Day, held at these Moroccan grounds for the first time and contributing a tidy donation to the Eve Foundation, [...]