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• Make Your Sweetheart Swoon with One of These Cooking Classes

  10-02-2017 23:00
  
  From a spice rub class to a chocolate fondue session, these classes are worth falling for…
  
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• Kate Spade playful, Klein political at NY Fashion Week

  10-02-2017 22:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Crunchy snow and ice greeted designers, models and fans at New York Fashion Week on Friday, a day after a snow storm pummeled the city. What visitors got was two collections by Kate Spade, a political message at the Calvin Klein show and La Perla lingerie strutting out of the
  
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• Belgian model becoming public face of intersex people

  10-02-2017 22:23
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Belgian fashion model Hanne Gaby Odiele knew from a young age that she was different from other girls but did not understand why until she was 17 and read a magazine story about...
  
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• Artwork on sex, passion and sensuality up for sale at Sotheby's

  10-02-2017 22:06
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Love, sex and passion - in all their forms - have inspired a new sale collection at Sotheby's in London.
  
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• Chopard Creates a 6-Piece Jewelry Set from the Queen of Kalahari Diamond

  10-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Queen of Kalahari diamond was acquired by Chopard and cut into 23 pieces—five of which weigh more than 20 carats
  The 342-carat diamond was delicately cut into 23 pieces and set into five designs… Carolyn Meers
  
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• Boo-Rye! American Whiskey Bourye Hits It Out of the Park

  10-02-2017 22:00
  
  High West Distillery Bourye ($80)
  High West Distillery’s new limited edition turns the sports cheer into a spirited toast…Dan Dunn
  
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• Her daily bread

  10-02-2017 21:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A few weeks before the close of the 2016 outdoor market season, Cora Wiens, owner of Eadha Bread, was trying to decide whether she should shelve her pots and pans for the year, or continue churning out her unique varieties of slow-fermented sourdough bread, which had proven to be a runaway hit at
  
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• Phoenix urban garden mysteriously closes amid land dispute

  10-02-2017 21:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHOENIX - A sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra closed Friday after the gardeners were mysteriously ordered out as a federal agency reassumes ownership of the land, stupefying and angering gardeners who called their eviction a...
  
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• Putting the taste in waste: Charity events save food from certain demise

  10-02-2017 21:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Trash is the new culinary treasure for some creative chefs who are repurposing ingredients normally destined for the garbage.Diners at an upcoming Trashed and Wasted charity event in Toronto can expect to consume food and drink made from ingredients rescued before they could become
  
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• Appeals court OKs NYC salt-warning rule for some restaurants

  10-02-2017 21:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - An appeals court says New York City's pioneering requirement for chain restaurants to flag salty items on their menus is both legal and "salutary."A state Supreme Court Appellate Division panel upheld the rule Friday. The regulation requires a salt-shaker-like icon for any chain
  
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• Calvin Klein show makes bold statement at NY Fashion Week

  10-02-2017 20:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Crunchy snow and ice greeted designers, models and fans at New York Fashion Week on Friday, a day after a snow storm pummeled the city. What visitors got was a political message from the Calvin Klein show and another where lingerie strutted out of the bedroom.Among the day's
  
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• Sugary drink consumption predicted to harm Canadians' health, cost economy: study

  10-02-2017 20:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Canadians — especially young people — are consuming excessive amounts of sugary drinks, a trend that could have future consequences for their health and the overall health-care system, new research suggests.The University of Waterloo study projects that sugary drink consumption will
  
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• Doll based on transgender teen to debut at New York Toy Fair

  10-02-2017 20:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - A New York doll maker says it will be selling what it believes is the first transgender doll on the market.The doll is based on Jazz Jennings, the teenage transgender subject of the TLC documentary series "I am Jazz." It will make its debut at the New York Toy Fair next week and be
  
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• Fashion show kicks off Brussels chocolate fair

  10-02-2017 19:39
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From floor-sweeping gowns to eye-catching shorter dresses, models strutted down a Brussels catwalk in an array of unusual designs on Thursday night - all adorned with chocolate.
  
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• A coffee chiffon cake that's as stunning as it is delicious

  10-02-2017 18:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  In celebration of this month's New York Fashion Week, The Culinary Institute of America created a recipe that is as timeless as a little black dress, but as decadent as the finest pair of platform pumps. Inspired by the most delicate of fabrics, this Sweet Coffee Chiffon Roulade is as visually...
  
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• Recalls this week: Laptop batteries, chairs

  10-02-2017 18:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A recall for overheating laptop batteries made by Panasonic was expanded this week. Other recalled consumer products include Laz-Z-Boy chairs.Here's a more detailed look:LAPTOP BATTERIESDETAILS: This expanded recall involves Panasonic lithium-ion battery packs installed in 18 models of
  
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• The weekend cook: Ken Yamada’s recipes for cod teriyaki and miso lamb

  10-02-2017 18:00
  
  Spectacular Japanese main courses you can make at homeThis is my final column standing in for Tommi, and I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. To mark the occasion, here are a couple of heavyweight dishes.Teriyaki is now as well known outside Japan as sushi or ramen, and it’s one of my favourite ways to cook. The key ingredients, as with so many Japanese dishes, are soy, sake and mirin, and they combine here to make a sauce that goes as well with meat and veg as with fish. I al
  
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• 6 Valentine’s Day Jewelry Gifts for Every Style

  10-02-2017 18:00
  
  Trendy or traditional, we have spotlighted six designs that will suit any style...Carolyn Meers
  
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• From the front page to the big screen: 10 films based on real events

  10-02-2017 17:54
  
  Hollywood’s not just about La La Land escapism. With Patriots Day, the new film about the Boston Marathon bombings, coming to UK cinemas from 23 February, it’s time to look at recent movies inspired by the headlinesThe Impossible (2012)
  This eyewitness view of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami attracted Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Naomi Watts, who plays the mother of a family swept away from their hotel poolside by the killer wave. With the Spanish family who inspired the film o
  
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• Croatian leaders tread softly in face of World War Two revisionism

  10-02-2017 17:49
  
  ZAGREB/NASICE, Croatia (Reuters) - An international exhibition about Anne Frank had already toured over 20 schools across Croatia when it ran into trouble last month in the coastal city of Sibenik,...
  
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• Let’s move to Kirkwall and Orkney: all sea, sky and peace

  10-02-2017 17:30
  
  Life on these isles is, if not simpler (have you tried getting from A to B on 70 islands?), then more elementalWhat’s going for it? The Orkney islands are my Plan B (though I haven’t told my wife). When all hell is breaking loose at home and post-postmodern chaos engulfs the world, when CBeebies is cranked up to 10 and I’m tripping over the Lego, I think of Orkney. I picture myself collecting seaweed on a beach on Sanday, staring out at a startled sheep from a little stone cott
  
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• Can a city inspire creativity? – video

  10-02-2017 17:29
  
  An award-winning architect, identical-twin fashion designers and SEAT’s head of colour reflect on how the city they call home – Barcelona – shapes their work. From the symmetrical buildings of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, to the abundant works of Gaudí – and even the sunlight that bathes the streets – the capital of Catalonia is endowed with much to inspire Continue reading...
  
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• London's ancient past goes on show after rail tunnel digs

  10-02-2017 17:11
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - A new exhibition opened in London on Friday showing items ranging from 8,000 year-old basic flint tools to Roman coins and Victorian-era jam jars that were discovered during...
  
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• A lingerie line goes outside the bedroom at NY Fashion Week

  10-02-2017 16:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Crunchy snow and ice greeted designers, models and fans at New York Fashion Week on Friday, a day after a snow storm pummeled the city.Among the day's highlights:KENDALL JENNER, NAOMI CAMPBELL, GWYNETH PALTROW SUPPORT LA PERLA SHOWLuxury lingerie line La Perla leapt from the...
  
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• How Google Chromebooks conquered schools

  10-02-2017 16:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn't a practical mobile device for many people — mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can't find a Wi-Fi connection.Yet Chromebooks have defied expectations and made major inroads in an
  
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• Why are we so hostile to others? | Oliver Burkeman

  10-02-2017 16:00
  
  You could argue that hypocrites lack self-discipline, which we think of as a moral failing – but that hardly seems a good enough explanationNo one likes a hypocrite – but when you stop to think about it, it’s strange how much we despise them. Sure, it’s bad not to practise what you preach. But at least you’re still preaching: if I’m constantly talking about the importance of humane farming, I’m promoting a worthy message, even if you’ll also find m
  
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• I’ve fallen for a man who has lost his wife but he no longer wants to see me

  10-02-2017 16:00
  
  After three months together, he suddenly called it off saying that he wasn’t ready to move on. I’m devastated – what should I do? Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerLast year, I signed up to a cycling holiday abroad. I hadn’t cycled seriously for two decades. I fell in love with the country I went to, fell in love with cycling again and started to fall in love with a fellow cyclist. He’s a family man whose wife of three decades died just three years ago. On the holid
  
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• Vasco & Piero’s Pavilion, London W1: ‘This Soho old-timer is rammed’ – restaurant review

  10-02-2017 15:00
  
  No fireworks, no dishes created for social media, no mouthy chefs poncing about: no wonder it’s such a success There’s a chill wind whistling around the capital. The award-winning gastropub has had to close its doors. The branché Provençal place in Exmouth Market has disappeared, in its place one of the new breed of coffee chains. A Michelin star couldn’t save the Soho stalwart. That indie meat joint I always meant to get to: gone. Even restaurant titans are suffe
  
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• Experience: I accidentally bought a giant pig

  10-02-2017 15:00
  
  I was told she was six months old, had come from a breeder and wouldn’t grow any bigger than a very large catI had no intention of owning a pig. Then one Friday night five years ago, I got a message from a girl I’d gone to school with. She said she remembered how much I loved animals and had a mini pig that she needed to get rid of. She’d just had twins and it was all too much work. She told me it was six months old, had come from a breeder and wouldn’t grow any bigger th
  
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• What I wore this week: a yellow dress | Jess Cartner-Morley

  10-02-2017 14:00
  
  The yellow dress is to the millennials of our uncertain times what red lipstick was to the women of the BlitzThere is a lot to be said for wearing something different. Standing by your principles is laudable in other arenas, but there is no virtue to be signalled by wearing navy, and in fashion, as in food, you miss half the fun if you refuse to try anything new. And the new new thing, is a yellow dress. It started almost a year ago, with Alicia Vikander’s strapless Louis Vuitton dress and
  
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• Paul Young: ‘Others have got back together and it hasn’t lasted, but we have kept at it’

  10-02-2017 14:00
  
  The singer talks about his Luton childhood, the pressures of constant touring and how his wife had a son while they were separatedMusic was always a big part of our family life. My dad’s brother used to play the harmonica at family parties, and my mum was in the Luton Girls Choir, who did lots of radio broadcasts and performances in the 50s. I have older cousins who used to play me their soul and ska records. Music still brings the family together, as my brother and sisters and cousins and
  
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• Photography isn't dead after all, says Salgado

  10-02-2017 13:44
  
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Having once forecast doom for photography in the face of the smartphone, Sebastiao Salgado has changed his mind.
  
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• From stained glass to stylists, Spain bids to be global shopping hub

  10-02-2017 13:11
  
  MADRID (Reuters) - Restorers of vintage stained glass are enjoying a new lease on life in Madrid these days, bringing their artisanal skills to a luxury retail and hotel complex in the center of...
  
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• My nine-year-old step-daughter has become a monster and her mother seems scared of her

  10-02-2017 13:00
  
  The girl is verbally and physically abusive to both of us – and acuses me of being a paedophile. I now dread going home and wonder about moving outA few years ago, I moved next door to a single mother of two children. After two years, we fell in love and moved in together in a bigger house. Things went well initially but have since gone downhill. I love the kids, but the nine-year-old girl has become a monster after befriending a spoilt younger child. She has become disrespectful and is ve
  
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• Delia Smith’s recipe for creme caramel – what could go wrong?

  10-02-2017 13:00
  
  What exactly is the difference between caramel and burnt sugar?To give you an idea of how my attempt to make creme caramel went, here’s a list of my Google searches, before, during and after: “creme caramel recipe”, “cleaning burnt caramel” and “how is creme caramel supposed to taste?” What went wrong? Well, I blame the recipe.“First,” Delia writes, “make the caramel. Put golden caster sugar in the saucepan and place it over a medium he
  
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• Ruby Tandoh’s recipe for chocolate orange marble cake

  10-02-2017 12:59
  
  The Tandoh family lunch was rounded off by shop-bought desserts – cherry bakewells, buttery madeira or soft chocolate marble cake, here given a zesty lift with added orangeMy family is boring, although I suspect we’d prefer to think of our boringness as a kind of respect for routine. Just as my brothers have been happily watching the same Simpsons episodes on repeat for the past 20 years, my parents have a rotating cast of familiar meals that come back time and again. We know what we
  
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• Greek city set for biggest peacetime evacuation over WW2 bomb

  10-02-2017 12:30
  
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Up to 72,000 people will be evacuated from their homes in Greece's second-biggest city of Thessaloniki on Sunday so experts can defuse and remove a World War Two bomb.
  
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• Nicky Spinks: 'I like the silence of running in the outdoors'

  10-02-2017 11:40
  
  Earlier this year, the 49-year-old made fell running history by becoming the fastest person to run a Double Bob Graham Round. What’s the secret of her success?The 49-year-old breast cancer-survivor marked 10 years post-diagnosis by running the Double Bob Graham Round – 132 miles and around 54,000ft of ascent – in a record-breaking time of 45 hours and 30 minutes.Where is your favourite place to run? It’s got to be the Peak District, where I live, even though it’s no
  
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• Ride out the crisis with homegrown veg

  10-02-2017 08:00
  
  Blighty’s supermarkets are in crisis. Heavy rains and frost in Spain and Italy mean courgettes and iceberg lettuce are running low. The lesson? To cook with the bountiful produce of Britain’s cold climate: brassicas, roots and alliumsRationing of any kind is always likely to make people sit up straight – the idea that we can’t buy as much of whatever we’d like causes instant consternation, even if it is iceberg lettuce. It causes some understandable confusion, too,
  
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• Quit watching that scale

  10-02-2017 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  You made the fitness resolution while raising your glass of bubbly on New Year’s Eve and you’ve worked out three times a week for more than a month. But the scale. Is. Not. Budging.Isn’t it possible that you’re actually fitter — that you have more lean body mass...
  
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• Battling the common cold

  10-02-2017 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The common cold is a viral infection of your nose and throat. It’s usually harmless, although it might not feel that way. Children younger than six are at greatest risk, but healthy adults can expect two or three colds a year.Most people recover in 10 days. Symptoms may last longer for
  
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• Don’t Miss These Three Must-See Cars at Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island Sale

  10-02-2017 02:05
  
  A 1949 Aston Martin DB Mk II.
  Two Aston Martin coupes and a roadster from Lancia are among the favorites to fall under the hammer…Viju Mathew
  
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• 10 of the World’s Most Romantic Restaurants

  10-02-2017 02:00
  
  Woo your sweetheart at one of these fine-dining hideaways and hot spots…Victoria Abbott Riccardi
  
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• Cruise the Amazon with Expert Environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau

  10-02-2017 01:10
  
  Aria Amazon
  With only 32 guests onboard, everyone gets an personal experience with the fascinating conservationist…Amanda Millin
  
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• Sudoku 3668 hard

  10-02-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1538 hard

  10-02-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).
  Buy the Guardian next Friday or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,590

  10-02-2017 01:00
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,117

  10-02-2017 01:00
  
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• More Ruth's Salads pimento cheese recalled in Southeast

  10-02-2017 00:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHESTER, S.C. - Authorities have announced a wider recall of Ruth's Salads products after listeria was found in a batch of the spread maker's products at a South Carolina plant.The South Carolina Agriculture Department said in a news release it has revoked the company's license to make food at...
  
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• 4 Under-the-Radar British Shoemakers Every Footwear Fanatic Should Know

  10-02-2017 00:00
  
  Grenson’s offerings range from bespoke dress shoes to casual boots
  Your next pair of handmade shoes is sure to be from one of these England-based brands…Anush Benliyan
  
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