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• The DB11 Performs and Handles Better than Any Previous Aston Martin

  12-03-2017 23:00
  
  Photography by Steven Lippman
  The company’s first all-new car in 13 years was worth the wait…Robert Ross
  
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• Angelus Unveils New Carbon Fiber U21 and U22 Tourbillons Ahead of Basel

  12-03-2017 21:00
  
  Building on the U20 Ultra-Skeleton Tourbillon, the new releases feature mainplates made from carbon fiber…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Vermont in for another big Lyme disease season

  12-03-2017 16:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. - This year is shaping up to be another big Lyme disease season in Vermont.For the past decade, tick-borne Lyme disease has been on the rise in New England. When the Vermont Health Department started tracking the disease in 1990, they found only 14 cases in the state, according...
  
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• Seven of the best four-season road bikes

  12-03-2017 16:03
  
  We road-test the latest all-weather bicycles designed for riding throughout the yearLike farmers, cyclists know that the British countryside is capable of serving up four seasons’ worth of weather in a single day. Traditionally, road cyclists would have a lightweight mudguard-less summer “best bike” for dry, sunny days and a winter understudy for wet, gritty rides. The former would likely be carbon-framed and the more expensive of the two, the latter made from tougher steel or
  
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• Break an egg! A theatre critic reviews Leon’s singing staff

  12-03-2017 15:59
  
  Employees at the West End branch of the restaurant now sing showtunes for customers. Will it lead to empty chairs at empty tables?Charlotte Chalkey and Aaron Rahn have only recently graduated from drama school, yet already they are both starring in the West End of London. They are performing on Shaftesbury Avenue but they are not appearing in Les Misérables or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.They are working at the latest branch of the fast-food chain Leon and, while the
  
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• Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say

  12-03-2017 15:16
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - For most Americans, daylight saving time means only one thing: losing an hour's sleep. So what is the point?
  
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• Spud you don’t like: have potatoes had their chips?

  12-03-2017 15:00
  
  We still eat plenty of crisps, hash browns and smiley faces, but sales of the unadulterated vegetable have fallen. If only you could microwave it …Name: Potatoes.Age: As a domesticated crop, between 7,000 and 10,000 years old. Continue reading...
  
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• Utterly brill fish recipes from Gill Meller

  12-03-2017 13:00
  
  The River Cottage’s former head chef cooks delicious piscine dishes in the final exclusive extract from his new book, Gather
  Cooking – and eating – fish makes me happy. I love how the simplest treatments can turn it into something special. It’s not something we need to eat every day, so when we do it’s worth making it perfect.Cooking fish is easy. Just remember, it cooks quickly, when it’s hot in the middle it’s done Continue reading...
  
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• Reinventing Argentina's classic sausage sandwich

  12-03-2017 13:00
  
  In Buenos Aires, punters at a new restaurant are getting more banger for their buck as guest chefs give the choripán a gourmet makeover A staple at football matches, family barbecues and political demonstrations, Argentina’s popular sausage sandwich, the choripán, has changed little in 170 years. Until now. The simple concept of a grilled pork chorizo – sliced in half, slapped in a roll and slathered in spicy chimichurri sauce – is going through a gourmet makeover
  
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• Allan Jenkins’s Plot 29: ‘Gardening has been my therapy’

  12-03-2017 09:00
  
  For the Observer Food Monthly editor, who was raised in children’s homes and foster care, growing food and flowers has been his saving and his solace. In his garden journal cum memoir, extracted here, he unearths his rootsJune 2015
  It is the month of early visits, of waking before 5am when the plot calls. The time of growth and hazel wigwams. Time to be concerned about seed. I lie awake – or sit at work – imagining the tender seedlings at the mercy of wind, rain, sun, slugs. Wi
  
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• The evening Graham Greene introduced himself at a star-studded party

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  It is May 1989, the Pinters throw a soirée for Daniel Ortega, and a most celebrated novelist takes pity on an unfamous young journalistMine was the face that didn’t fit. Everyone else who had gathered on a golden Sunday evening in May 1989 at the London home of Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser was immediately recognisable: Melvyn Bragg, Bianca Jagger, David Hare, Ian McEwan, Rosanna Arquette, Peter Gabriel. We were assembled under the auspices of Arts for Nicaragua to welcome the Sa
  
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• The easy way to get natural curls

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  Cascades of coils are so back – and there’s a new generation of products to help achieve the holiday hair look effortlesslyTaming kinks and waves is mainly about managing frizz. Curlies know that even the most diligent application of heat and oil will fail to suppress those last few stubborn coils. The good news is that natural-looking curls are back – and they’re almost effortless to achieve with the new generation of organic and largely chemical-free conditioners, textu
  
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• Paula Principle: why women work below their abilities | Tom Schullere

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  This persistent injustice is also a waste of talent – and men as well as women need to see why before we can change it, says Tom Schuller
  Sociologists, economists and many others have analysed exhaustively why women don’t get certain types of job or progress beyond certain levels, and why gender pay gaps exist.That the competence gap between women and men is increasing, in almost every developed country, gives added salience to the question: how and why is women’s competence no
  
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• My husband died. Now my daughter hates me | Mariella Frostrup

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  It’s common for a grieving child to deify a parent who dies and blame the surviving parent, says MariellaThe dilemma My husband and I separated. I left him because of anger issues that he couldn’t control. A few months after we parted he died from a heart attack. I have three kids and my daughter, who is 11, believes that if I had never left, her daddy would still be alive. I loved him and refuse to tell her in full why we couldn’t live together. All the kids know is that he pu
  
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• How to grow houseplants from food scraps

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  Simple ways to get really unusual, beautiful houseplants for free. All you need is a little patienceExotic houseplants are now well and truly back at the forefront of fashionAfter a long hiatus since their 80s heyday, houseplants are now well and truly back at the forefront of horticultural fashion. Hallelujah! Yet the choices available in British garden centres are still either restricted to the same boring old suspects (think weeping figs and kentia palms) or are quirky but super-pricey living
  
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• Eat like a Jedi: the best tie-in cookbooks | Phill Langhorne

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  Star Wars, Fifty Shades, Twin Peaks…Phill Langhorne finds plenty of drama in these film and TV recipe books
  In 1940, to capitalise on the success of Gone with the Wind, toothpaste company Pebeco published a tie-in cookbook, featuring recipes such as Coffee Cake Wheels and Georgia Peach Trifle. Since then, hundreds of films and TV shows have left their culinary mark. Here we prepare a meal, with each course coming from a different TV of film tie-in cookbook. Continue reading...
  
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• Barbecoa, London: restaurant review

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  Jamie Oliver’s flashy new meat and smoke joint in Piccadilly is ambitious in everything, including its prices194 Piccadilly, London W1J 9EX (020 3005 9666). Meal for two, including wine and service: £175 (if you trip up on the wine list)Earlier this year Jamie Oliver announced he was closing six branches of his Jamie’s Italian chain because, y’know, BREXIT! This was odd. While the industry was reporting cost issues as a result of the referendum vote, no one else had cited
  
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• Agent Provocateur and Sports Direct: all is revealed on the buyout

  12-03-2017 07:00
  
  Teenage years spent working at the upmarket lingerie store mean Eva Wiseman knows exactly what’s going on underneath Mike Ashley’s buy outI’ve written before about the end of my teens, when I worked at Agent Provocateur selling £200 pants to men with new teeth and young wives. They often wore their wealth oddly, as if they’d flung it on just before they left the house in case of rain. Very quickly, they’d rifle through the rails, £1,000 plonked on the Am
  
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• Wines for a fishy feast | David Williams

  12-03-2017 06:59
  
  Gill Meller, former chef of River Cottage, creates delicious dishes based on the sea. Here’s what to drink with themLuigi Maffini Kratos Fiano, Campania, Italy 2016 (from £19.75, Lea & Sandeman) Gill Meller’s rosemary, cream and anchovy sauce for brill has a family resemblance to the pungent sauces that enliven fish dishes all over the Mediterranean. And as with a garlicky aioli, herby salsa verde or tangy, red peppery romesco, when it comes to choosing a wine to pair with
  
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• This Epic Trip Introduces Golfers to 10 Courses in South America and the Caribbean

  12-03-2017 05:00
  
  Photo by Jim Mandeville
  The 20-day trip allows golfers to play on 10 courses in six countries…Rebekah Bell
  
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• This Might Be New York’s Most Adventurous Restaurant

  12-03-2017 02:00
  
  Brooklyn’s New Nordic restaurant, Aska
  Aska elevates the New Nordic trend with creative ingredients and presentation…Jackie Caradonio
  
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• This Watch Flutters Its Wings (Yes, Wings) Based on Your Arm’s Natural Movements

  12-03-2017 00:00
  
  Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Papillon Automate ($290,000)
  The butterfly in this Van Cleef & Arpels timepiece also flaps its wings when the watch is immobile…James D. Malcolmson
  
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