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Pasta with Artichoke Hearts, Sun Dried Tomatoes, and Toasted Almonds

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The summer potluck season is here! One of the challenges of preparing a dish to share with a group is food sensitivities or preferences. Some of your gathering may be vegetarian, or gluten-free, or dairy-free, or all three. Pasta is pretty easy to do gluten-free, there are many gluten-free brands available that are pretty good [...]

Harry Ramsden’s re-opens under new owners

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There’s a bunfight in Yorkshire today to mark the rescue – and first portions – of the shrine to fish and chips The world’s most famous fish and chip shop re-opens today after a speedy turnaround worthy of its colourful history. Portions of skinless haddock, mushy peas and the rest of it will be served [...]

Car-free guide to UK’s national parks

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A host of new schemes ? from bike buses to e-bikes for hire ? means it is now easier than ever to explore Britain’s national parks using public transport The Lake District The Lake District (golakestravel.co.uk) is currently splashing out £6.9m to help you across Beatrix Potter country without mowing down Peter Rabbit’s relatives. The [...]

New band of the day ? No 1,280: San Zhi

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This pop duo tick all the right boxes for huge commercial success ? they just need the right producer Hometown: Bournemouth via Egypt. The lineup: Peter Howarth-Brown (vocals, guitar) and Suraya (vocals). The background: The Sanzhi UFO houses were a series of futuristic pod-shaped buildings in Taiwan designed in the late 70s for visiting US [...]

Wyke Farms secures new contract with Asda

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Wyke Farms, the UK?s largest independent cheese producer and milk processor, has secured new listings for their 200g Farmhouse Salted Butter, which is now available in 250 Asda stores in the UK. Richard Clothier, third generation family member & managing director, Wyke Farms said: ?Every year our Farmhouse Butter becomes more significant in terms of [...]

Muscles, magic and suicide bombers

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What’s the best training a director can have for Sophocles’s visceral Antigone? Working with Derren Brown, of course. Plenty of us have long thought that the National theatre bears a resemblance to a military bunker. Polly Findlay’s revival of Sophocles’s great tragedy, Antigone, is likely to confirm this. Findlay, together with designer-of-the-moment Soutra Gilmour, has [...]

Feminism at the fore of Mad Men

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The plot lines of hit TV show Mad Men expose the stark choices facing career women in the 1960s, says Jane Martinson SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who have seen episode 11 of season five of Mad Men, which was shown on Sky Atlantic on May 29. In 1967 the newly formed National [...]

Feminism finally comes to the fore in TV’s Mad Men

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The plot lines of hit TV show Mad Men expose the stark choices facing career women in the 1960s, says Jane Martinson SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who have seen episode 11 of season five of Mad Men, which was shown on Sky Atlantic on May 29. In 1967 the newly formed National [...]

Frutti di Mare – Substitutions

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It's my husband's birthday on Friday, and I've found a few excellent linguine ai frutti di mare recipes. It used to be one of his favorites before he developed shellfish allergies and was forced to avoid things like it. I'm trying to find a way to modify the recipe to retain the flavours while making [...]

10 of the best budget restaurants and cafes in north Devon

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From award-winning fish and chips to fantastic home-cooked vegetarian food, we’ve found the best meals for under £10. Plus a cream tea or two, naturally ? As featured in our holiday guide to Devon Terra Madre at Broomhill Art Hotel, near Barnstaple Perched atop a winding driveway via an enchanted forest, this hidden gem will [...]

The GM debate is growing up | James Randerson

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Scientists on YouTube, Frankenfood out of the headlines: Rothamsted looks like a turning point ‘No GM spuds,” proclaimed a banner wielded by protesters in opposition to a trial of genetically modified crops last weekend. The activists had planned to destroy the trial plots at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire but were thwarted by a low turnout [...]

Kathie Lee Gifford Asks Martin Short About His Late Wife

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One of the first rules in journalism is to do your research and it looks as if Kathie Lee Gifford forgot. On Wednesday mornings ?Today Show,? the talk show host created a very awkward moment on air when she asked its guest Martin Shortabout his relationship with his wife Nancy Dolman who died of ovarian [...]

Trading up, trading down ? in pictures

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From a flint cottage in Sussex to a Shropshire town house Anna Tims Halle Berry Hayden Panettiere Haylie Duff Heidi Klum Heidi Montag

The ‘papple’: tasted and tested

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Oliver Thring gets to grips with the latest hybrid fruit to go on sale: a pear disguised as an apple. Would you pay a pound a pop for a papple? M&S are launching the so-called “papple” this week ? a species of pear that looks a bit like an apple. Keen followers of fruit industry [...]

Koechlin: Magicien Orchestrateur ? review

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Wegener/Hoelscher/Stuttgart SWR RSO/Holliger(Hänssler) Charles Koechlin‘s list of original works includes well over 200 opus numbers, but he was also a prodigious and skilled orchestrator, regularly transcribing not only his own chamber pieces but music by other composers, too. The latest release in Hänssler’s slowly accumulating Koechlin survey is devoted to the best known of those [...]