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• Penfolds Grange Has Flavor You Can Measure in Liters

  20-11-2016 21:00
  
  enfolds produces just a handful of 6-liter (or Imperial) bottles of Grange each year, none of which have been offered for sale
  Australia’s famous winery offers 6-liter bottles of its flagship wine at a palate-popping price…William Kelley
  
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• When Did the Cocktail Scene Go from Fuzzy Navels to Negronis?

  20-11-2016 19:00
  
  Dan Dunn was there when the craft cocktail was reborn…Dan Dunn
  
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• 10 Ways to Boost Your Brain Health This Week

  20-11-2016 17:00
  
  "We think technology can actually train our brains toconfront mental challenges with ease."—Gary Small, MD, UCLA Longevity CenterStay-sharp secrets from a leading expert on longevity…
  Meghan Rabbitt
  
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• Is the jig finally up for coffee shop Wi-Fi freeloaders?

  20-11-2016 15:00
  
  Cafe proprietors say those making use of free internet access have plunged once-lively establishments into office-like silence – and now they’re fighting backFleabag – the BBC 3 sneak-attack that became the summer’s most banged-on-about comedy sensation – drew praise for its thrillingly dark humour, unapologetic filthiness and deft exploration of grief. But one of the show’s most devastatingly acute observations didn’t have anything to do with sex or dea
  
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• Flexible and Modern Worksharing Space in Germany

  20-11-2016 15:00
  
  Holzmassivhaus is the brainchild of MIND Architects Collective. Located in Mainz-Bischofsheim, Germany, a suburban community of around 12,000 near Frankfurt, this 233 square meter home is flexible and unobtrusively modern.The client was an active part of the design process in envisioning his new home; a home office that combined the benefits of private urban living with the flexibility of communal working space. Flexibility was a guiding factor in the design, ensuring that pu
  
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• Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult

  20-11-2016 10:00
  
  Cruel and charismatic, Anne Hamilton-Byrne was the Australian leader of a doomsday cult who thought she was the Messiah. Abigail Haworth on the woman behind The FamilyAnne Hamilton-Byrne wore pearls and Chanel perfume. She played the harp and sang soprano. She had blonde hair, styled in waves that caught the light. As leader of The Family, the Australian doomsday cult she founded in the 1960s, she claimed to be Jesus reborn as a woman. Much of her power, say her former followers, lay in her grey
  
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• Five Christmas bakes from the inventor of the Cronut

  20-11-2016 09:00
  
  Dominique Ansel, named the world’s top patissier, shares his yuletide recipes for snowflake beignets, chocolate tres leches cake and champagne morning rollsChristmas has always been exciting for Dominique Ansel. Growing up in the small city of Beauvais, an hour north of Paris, he experienced it as period of plenty in an otherwise lean existence. “My family didn’t have much,” he recalls. “My dad used to work in a factory and there wasn’t always a lot of food on
  
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• Yosma, London: restaurant review

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  For great Turkish food you normally head to the suburbs… but Yosma in Baker Street is the exceptionYosma, 50 Baker Street, London W1U 7BT (020 3019 6282).Meal for two, including drinks and service: £80Through no fault of its own, Yosma may well have to fight the inverse snobbery of Londoners. We know where to go for good, cheap Turkish food; for rough-edged dishes prepared by stocky men with moustaches who cook sitting down, hunched over the smoking mangal grill like this is the onl
  
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• The joy of textiles: Britain’s new fabric designers

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  A new wave of designers is being inspired by nature and the great outdoors. Becky Sunshine meets three fabric artists brightening up the material worldTraditionally, textile designers have been tucked away in studios like busy worker bees, producing library-loads of mostly anonymous designs, for which recognition is rare.But that’s not the case at the moment. There’s a new crop of textile artists creating vibrant and distinctive prints for homes. Their work is not going unnoticed &nd
  
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• The eco guide to wet wipes

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  These flushable friends are highly convenient and proving to be more and more popular. But they play havoc with sewers and the environmentIs there anything more disgusting than a fatberg? These gargantuan mounds of debris block the intestines of civilisation (ie sewers). Fatberg season used to peak on Christmas Day, when people poured turkey fat down the drains in a mass festive clog. Now they’re an all-year hazard, thanks to the inexorable rise of the wet wipe.There are wet wipes for ever
  
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• Storck Visioner C: bike preview | Martin Love

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  Known for its technical excellence and sky-high prices, the Storck was never going to be an everyday ride. But then along came this entry-level modelOn stage at last week’s Rouleur event in London, Ned Boulting finally got his wish: to interview the great German champion Jan Ullrich, who won the Tour in emphatic style in 1997. Joining them both was Markus Storck, the brains behind the eponymous, lusted-after brand. Jan now rides regularly at pro-am events with Markus, the two competing on
  
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• Reasons to be cheerful: how putting other people first makes you happy

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  Struggling with motivation? Then stop being so selfishGiven that motivation is so central to our lives, what do we really know about it? What do we truly understand about how it operates and about its role in our lives? The assumption is that it’s driven by a positive, external reward. Do this, get that. But the story is much more intricate and complex.One of the most striking aspects of motivation is that it often drives us to achievements that are difficult, challenging and even pai
  
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• My wife is hooked on advice columns, and deeply suspicious

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  Married to a problem page addict, a man finds himself constantly being suspected of having affairs. Mariella Frostrup considers the case from an agony aunt’s perspectiveImagine what it’s like round my place. Exposure to the dark corners of other people’s lives, week in week out, for the past 15 years has certainly been no picnic in the park. The briefest of encounters encourages further scrutiny; the apparently unblemished exteriors of my fellow humans just incitement to deeper
  
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• Gardens: about a boysenberry

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  Now’s the time to plant this most delicious of hybridsTo me, the best thing about growing your own fruit and veg is that it opens up a vast array of flavours that just aren’t sold by the supermarkets – and nowhere is this truer than when it comes to berries. Gooseberries, currants and many of the weird and wonderful bramble hybrids that were once commonplace in the British diet have become increasingly rarer finds in the bland uniformity of flavourless commercial offerings. For
  
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• Doner dinner: 50 years of the kebab

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  Filling, spicy and a meal in one hand… It’s been the ultimate post-pub snack for half a century. David Farley heads to Berlin in search of the perfect donerHappy birthday to the humble kebab. The döner kebab has existed in Turkey for centuries, but there it arrives on the table as a heap of sliced meat on a plate with rice and vegetable sides. Exactly when, however, some Turkish immigrant in Europe had a burst of culinary inspiration, stuffing the meat and veg into a pocket of
  
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• At last the truth is out: most men hate stag nights

  20-11-2016 07:00
  
  Clad in mankinis, chained to lampposts, laughed at by lap dancers and forced to get drunk. What’s not to like?he recent discovery by scientists that #NotAllMen love a stag party begs a couple of questions. First, I want to know more about the research methods. Loads more. The concept of ethnographic researchers following bands of men through the pubs of Brighton and bars of Prague analysing the angle of dicks scrawled on sleeping friends’ foreheads and the emotional response of groom
  
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• The ups and downs of being an airline pilot

  20-11-2016 01:05
  
  Tom Hanks’s latest thriller, Sully, is about the dramatic emergency landing of a plane on the Hudson River. But what do we know really about the lives of pilots? Jonathan Margolis hears some cockpit confessionsThe guy going through the US airport security gate looks like a successful financial director, nice glasses, mid-40s, borderline quite cool. The security guard lifts his carry-on bag from the machine. “Is this yours?” she barks. He confirms it is. “You got a knife i
  
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• Reason to wear... velvet

  20-11-2016 00:45
  
  No Christmas party is complete without a touch of velvet on the dancefloor. Get ready to embrace the very festive trend that has graced the catwalks of Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Dries Van Noten and Prada.Fashion editor: Jo JonesContinue reading...
  
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• The 5 Most Relaxing Spas at Sea

  20-11-2016 00:00
  
  Set sail for high seas and serene vibes with these ultimate cruise-ship spa experiences…Margaux Lushing
  
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