Guest Recipe: Breanna Richard’s Hazelnut, Raspberry and White Chocolate Brownie
You will need 1 large lined cake tin Preheated oven at 160°C Ingredients 650g 70% chocolate 450g butter 750g sugar…
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Will Lander guest-edits Food Friday
I USUALLY GET into the restaurant around 8-8.30am. Hopefully the first sight I see will be our amazing head chef…
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Food Friday: Andrew Wong makes chili vegetarian dish: Sichuanese Aubergines
Andrew Wong of A. Wong Restaurant in London creates the most famous dish on his menu; the delectable citron Sichuanese…
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Why fine-art collecting is not dissimilar to compulsive hoardin
I REMEMBER ONE of the first times I saw my mother cry. It was over a set of 200-year-old Chinese…
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Frieze Week carries the danger of isolating London in solitary wealth
‘It’s anthropology,’ said my New York friend over for Frieze Week in London. ‘What do you mean?’ I responded. ‘We’re…
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Your guide to the best hotels and resorts in Mauritius
It’s time for a break, isn’t it? Summer has long been forgotten and winter has crept in so quickly, so…
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Frieze Special: Fraud and fakery are no surprise in the art world – just ask Modigliani
Author: Abdus Shuman Ralph Lerner, a high-profile art-world lawyer — he has worked with Steven A Cohen, the Gagosian Gallery…
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Frieze Special: Why Detroit should sell its art
ON 18 JULY, Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, seeking protection from its creditors. The city appointed Kevyn Orr as…
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How high-class Chinese mistresses are taking stock of the luxury market (and their lovers)
MORE THAN 1,500 years ago, China’s political hierarchy had already identified the role that concubines could play. The Jin dynasty…
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Best of the weekend’s papers: London property as reserve currency, JP Morgan grinds to a loss, sex and death and paintings
1. London’s great exodus (New York Times) The property market is no longer about people making a long-term investment in…
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Monday Minute – 14th October 2013
This week, editor Josh Spero talks about why the Guardian’s got it all wrong: we should be *thanking* the Frieze…
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Josh Spero’s Frieze Week Diary
Monday Art fairs visited on Saturday: two. Exhibitions visited: one. Pounds paid for Fortnum & Mason breakfast tea in a…
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Josh Spero's Frieze Week Diary
Every year, Spear’s editor Josh Spero brings you news, reviews and gossip from Frieze Week, when London is filled with…
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Art Wars – an exhibition of Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets transformed into works of art by some of the world’s…
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Author: Phaneendra Kumar Holding a special place in the hearts of gourmets, restaurants in Madrid hog the limelight whenever there…
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The sixth Meurice Prize for contemporary art has been awarded to Neïl Beloufa, represented by the Galerie Balice Hertling. True…
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Monday Minute – 7th October 2013
This week, Spear’s editor Josh Spero talks about the FBI’s closure of Silk Road and what this has to do…
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Sitwell Scoffs: Deer stalking in Scotland
It was my birthday, but no London restaurant celebrations for me. We got into the car and drove to Perthshire,…
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Surprise, surprise: Millionaire men fear dating wealthy women
Millionaire men prefer to date non-millionaire women as they don’t like to be challenged by their partners, while HNW women…
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Books to look forward to in 2014
Author: Peter Matthews From macabre comedy and gory, middle class cannibalism in Natalie Young’s Season to Taste, to the second…
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