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• The Most Expensive American Whiskey Gets an Upgrade

  08-01-2017 21:00
  
  2016 Michter’s Celebration Sour Mash
  Michter’s new limited-edition release is a blend of aged bourbons and ryes…Tony Sachs
  
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• Seven Ultimate Adventures for 2017

  08-01-2017 18:00
  
  This year’s coolest adventures, from a rhino safari in Nepal to a superyacht charter in Cuba…
  
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• Buddha branding is everywhere – but what do Buddhists think?

  08-01-2017 16:00
  
  Buddhism is all about restraint and detachment, so no wonder the religion’s philosophy is proving popular at the start of a year in which many already feel anxiousNew year, new tenuously legitimate diet rooted in spirituality. The Buddha diet is one of January’s horde. Ostensibly rooted in sensible, restrictive eating, it’s also one of the latest examples of consumer society co-opting asceticism to sell stuff. The book Buddha’s Diet is climbing bestseller lists; Buddha bo
  
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• Nigel Slater’s winter salads with chicken and pork

  08-01-2017 13:00
  
  After all the stodge of the festive season, start afresh with these cool winter dishesI am not going to forgo my daily salad just because there’s a bit of frost on the roof. Those crisp, crackling leaves of winter, the welcome snap of bitterness and bright flavours will continue to take their place on my table, they just need a slightly different treatment. Most of my winter salads have a hot element to them – a sizzling, often spicy addition to contrast with the coolness of all the
  
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• The woman on the train with a book with ‘girl’ in the title…

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  There are so many books with ‘girl’ in the title. What are they trying to tell us?I decided to try and read every new book with “Girl” in the title. Girls on trains, with tattoos, lost, trapped, forgotten, broken, beautiful. Complicated girls who may or may not be dead.There are a lot to get through, and more being published every week. My Kindle looks like a Smash Hits lyric sheet, minus the “Ooh’s”. Continue reading...
  
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• The secret life of a food courier

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  It sounds gruelling, but Katie Horwich finds poetry in cycling through the capital, making sure the city is well fedThe first meal I delivered was a single lobster bisque to a penthouse overlooking St Katherine Docks. A cufflinked wrist thrust out from behind a door to retrieve it. My bike was lit by moonlight, the boats swayed in the harbour, and despite not seeing his face, I had the fleeting thought that this could be the most romantic job of my life.I’ve been a Deliveroo rider for a fe
  
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• The eco guide to taking action in 2017

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  All too often environmentalism is about stopping doing something, but maybe it’s time to be more active and start doing something instead?I wonder if Nike would loan me its famous brand slogan as a motto this year. After all, Just Do It is much more motivating than Just Don’t Do It – the traditional ethical living response…Until now. Who can fail to be cheered by the way the Divest movement has just done it? Starting only four years ago with a smattering of universities,
  
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• The day I played Mellotron for David Bowie

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  It’s 1969, a young Rick Wakeman has mastered the weird electonic keyboard, and a rising star wants him to play on a track called Space OddityIt was early 1969, I was 19 coming up on 20. I’d worked with the producer Tony Visconti that year on the Junior’s Eyes album. I was playing a Mellotron which was a relatively new instrument and difficult to keep in tune, but I’d found a crafty way. Tony asked: “How’d you do that?” and I said: “It’s just
  
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• Lipsticks with added moisturiser

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  Perfectly painted lips light up a winter landscapeA hat, a scarf, a coat buttoned up to here, and the only spotlight of colour in a landscape of dark wool and mulched leaves – your perfectly painted lips. Nice thought, that. Especially because today the range of lovely moisturising formulations means lipstick can be worn sheer and rosy or matte and dark, both offering the kind of soft care and relief you need this winter. Continue reading...
  
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• How can I get used to my partner’s low sex drive? | Mariella Frostrup

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  Don’t, says Mariella Frostrup. Your partner’s low libido will always make you feel unappealing. Either he must get help or you should find a better matchThe dilemma I am in my early twenties and my boyfriend of two and a half years is eight years older. We have a great relationship, he makes me laugh constantly and we’re pretty much on the same page about everything in life. The only thing I’m struggling with is his lower sex drive. We’ve spoken about it loads and h
  
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• Changing the way you think | Dan Glaser

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  It’s all too easy to give up on our resolutions, but new research shows that with perseverance we can rewire our brains even in adulthoodMany of us may already be struggling with our New Year’s resolutions, but at least we can take comfort in modern neuroscience. Forty years ago, we’d have been less hopeful.Back then neuroscience would say that the brain was fixed after early childhood. One famous experiment in the 1960s showed that if kittens were placed in a visually deprived
  
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• Aquavit, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  Polished, self-satisfied and overpriced, Aquavit is a proper Nordic noir thriller but for all the wrong reasonsAquavit, 1 Carlton Street, London SW1Y 4QQ (020 7024 9848). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £150Earlier this year I interviewed the New York-based chef Marcus Samuelsson about his London venture, due to open next spring. He promised not to stride into the capital like some conquering hero. This, he said, would be a “humble journey”. This is a sentiment we c
  
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• Wines which won’t break the bank | David Williams

  08-01-2017 06:59
  
  Dry January? Forget it, here’s a rundown of cheap and cheerful wines for the first cash-strapped weeks of 2017Winemakers’ Selection by Sainsbury’s Vinho Verde, Portugal (£5, Sainsbury’s) This being the skintest time of the year for most of us, it’s time for my annual selection of the best very cheap wines around. Given that after tax, packaging and transport, only a few pence is left for the liquid, the bar is set pretty low expectation-wise for any wine sub-&
  
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• Quiet, please: Jay Rayner’s silent retreat

  08-01-2017 01:05
  
  Being quiet doesn’t come naturally to Jay Rayner. So we sent him on a silent retreat. But could the disputatious food critic make it through a day without speaking? Find out, and hear about 10 other retreats…I am just 30 minutes into my silent retreat when it hits me: I hate the sound of my own voice. Sure, my lips aren’t moving, but I can hear me. My brain has gone into overdrive. There’s nothing I can do to make the damn thoughts in my head shut up. God, but I’m
  
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• How dropping acid saved my life

  08-01-2017 01:05
  
  When writer Ayelet Waldman fell into depression she started microdosing with LSD. She tells Rachel Cooke about her extraordinary experiment with acidSome time ago – for reasons that will become apparent I am not allowed to say when, exactly – the American writer Ayelet Waldman scored some LSD. She did this, not on a street corner or via the dark web, but middle-class style, through an acquaintance of an acquaintance, for which reason the drug arrived at her home in Berkeley, Californ
  
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• Snow patrol: ski wear for women – in pictures

  08-01-2017 00:45
  
  From the chalet balcony to the pristine slopes, this season’s skiwear is technical, luxurious and, most importantly, warm. Continue reading...
  
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• Six Blissful Beach Trips for 2017

  08-01-2017 00:00
  
  From Malibu to Mexico, these beach trips are the hottest for 2017…
  
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