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• Home bakers in New Jersey stew over country's last ban

  18-06-2017 18:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. - There's only one thing preventing baker Mandy Coriston from selling the Irish soda bread she makes from her great-grandmother's recipe inside her old cast-iron skillets: She lives ......
  
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• Young designers take spotlight during Milan Fashion Week

  18-06-2017 17:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - A fresh breeze buffeted Italy's fashion capital during the second day of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday, both literally, bringing relief from the June heat, and figuratively, as ...
  
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• At World Series of Poker, massage brings relief - and luck

  18-06-2017 16:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LAS VEGAS - Poker players participating in the weeks-long World Series of Poker in Las Vegas often remain seated for hours at a time trying to win big paydays.To deal ......
  
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• The cat clause: Proposed budget would allow feline adoptions

  18-06-2017 16:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LACONIA, N.H. - Animal shelter officials in New Hampshire say a provision in the state's proposed budget could save more than nine lives.Current law prohibits shelters in the state from ...
  
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• That looks off, mate: why craft beer lovers are falling for murky ales

  18-06-2017 16:00
  
  New techniques producing hazy, unfiltered beers preserve flavour and add silken textures, claim brewers. But how can you tell if you’ve been sold a bad pint?For decades, there has been a transparent consensus among beer drinkers that a perfect pint must look crystal-clear. But as Britain begins to embrace murky beer, that shibboleth suddenly looks shaky.From Cornwall’s Verdant Brewing to Pilot in Edinburgh, many UK breweries are now making opaque, milky-looking beers. “Murky&rd
  
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• Modern family: More courts allowing 3 parents of 1 child

  18-06-2017 15:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Sixteen-year-old Madison's family clustered for a photo in a California courtroom, commemorating the day it finally became official that she has three parents.The adults she calls Mom, ...
  
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• Courts and 'tri-parenting': A state-by-state look

  18-06-2017 15:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Courts, lawmakers or both in least 12 U.S. states have said that some children can have more than two parents, though there are differences in the details ...
  
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• How baking helped save my life

  18-06-2017 15:00
  
  The science and magic of baking led Elisabeth Mahoney away from grief and into a new life and successful businessThere was always bread,” says Elisabeth Mahoney. “When I was young, my mum was a night nurse in Hither Green Hospital, and she would come home in the morning, bake some bread in our teensy kitchen, then sleep while I went to school. She taught me how to make my first soda bread when I was eight.”Mahoney and I are chatting as she teaches me how to make my first bread:
  
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• Frozen in Time: Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, New York, March 1981

  18-06-2017 15:00
  
  The most glamorous couple in pop, photographed in their New York kitchen by Allen TannenbaumComedy oven gloves are often overlooked when one considers the 1970s punk scene of New York, getting lost among the black leather and heroin. We’re in the apartment of Chris Stein and Debbie Harry in 1981, when they were the most glamorous couple in the world, and they’re having what looks like quite a laugh.Debbie Harry was performing with a girl group called the Stilettos in 1974, and nervou
  
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• Social media and the great recipe explosion: does more mean better?

  18-06-2017 14:00
  
  Recipes were passed through generations, now they’re shared around the world via Instagram and Pinterest in seconds – and you don’t even have to leave home for the ingredientsIn the 1980s, the Egyptian food writer Claudia Roden visited Australia, touring various wineries. She noticed that many served bread and oil, plus a little bowl of an artisanal spice mix for dipping, which they called “dukkah”. “It made people thirsty so they drank more,” Roden reme
  
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• Laura Mvula: ‘I can’t make music when I’ve got a dirty kitchen’

  18-06-2017 14:00
  
  The singer-songwriter on Mum’s Caribbean cooking, food platters with Prince – and the worst time to have a burgerI grew up in a little terraced house in Selly Park, Birmingham. The rickety old piano was in the dining room. I’d usually practise while the smells of mum’s cooking – ackee and saltfish – drifted in from the kitchen. A piano and dining table are practically one and the same in my mind.One church we attended had Caribbean evenings on Saturdays, where
  
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• Gin tonic: the rare botanicals giving the spirit a South African twist

  18-06-2017 13:30
  
  South Africa’s Western Cape is home to thousands of unique plant species infusing a new range of ginsThe global gin renaissance continues apace, and the Western Cape is turning into an unlikely trendsetter, as a new wave of gin makers gives the age-old spirit a South African twist. It’s less about juniper and more about endemic botanicals plucked straight from the Cape Floral Region, home to more than 9,000 plant species, nearly 70% of which grow nowhere else on earth.Inverroche was
  
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• High school? Colorado outfit offers niche program for marijuana sommeliers

  18-06-2017 13:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  VANCOUVER - A marijuana aficionado in Colorado has launched a program he hopes will make the title of cannabis interpener as familiar as wine sommelier, cheesemonger and chocolatier.Max Montrose, the ......
  
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• Nigel Slater’s new potatoes recipes

  18-06-2017 13:00
  
  The season’s sweet and nutty new potatoes are like buried treasure, and all the better for a coating of soilI spotted a sack of tiny Jersey potatoes this week, their flaky skins still coated with a layer of the island’s soil. It is rare to find them unwashed in my neck of the woods. I don’t want my fragile new potatoes (Jersey or otherwise) tumbled around in a giant washing machine, then wrapped in plastic. “It’s what the customers want,” I hear. Well, not thi
  
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• Classic Spanish recipes from Nieves Barragán Mohacho

  18-06-2017 13:00
  
  The former Barrafina chef shares recipes from her new cookbook, Sabor including Galician octopus and a Riojan chorizo and potato stew Eighteen years ago, a young woman called Nieves Barragán Mohacho left Santurtzi, the small Basque town where she had grown up and lived all her life, and travelled to London to take up an offer of work in the kitchen at the Barbican branch of the French chain Simply Nico (a friend’s boyfriend was its sous chef). This wasn’t, by any stretch of th
  
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• The eco guide to fair trade lite

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  Sainsbury’s has launched a new ‘Fairly Traded’ tea range. Well and good, but the fear is they may seek to swerve Fairtrade’s tough regulationsWe know the drill. An appealing product gets listed by a major retailer, becomes well loved by consumers only for that retailer to replace it with an own-brand version.Sainsbury’s says its new system is up to date, focusing more on climate change Continue reading...
  
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• The day Keith Richards joined us at the Test match in Antigua

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  It’s April 1986, Gower and Gooch are up against Holding and Garner, and an unkept Rolling Stone shows up at the ground for beer and fried chickenIt was April 1986 and I was in Antigua in the Caribbean. I was, on a break after uni with some cricket-loving mates. We had very little money and were staying in a beach shack, bought tickets for just $1 for the Test match against England played at the recreation ground in the centre of St John’s (where prisoners from the local jail dressed
  
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• The chairman: the dealer selling CC41 furniture to the famous

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  James Watkins set out to be a pop star, but instead found success dealing in Second World War utility piecesIt was during his time living in London’s Whitechapel that James Watkins discovered his love for design and vintage furniture. He had a small room in Myrdle Court, a shabby art deco block of flats with curved Crittall windows, that had once been home to the band Bow Wow Wow and the Chapman Brothers. Although he was working as a musician, he realised the importance of his environment.
  
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• The Cat’s Pyjamas: restaurant review

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  Indian street food and craft beer is a great combo in Leeds, and it could be coming to a high street near you soon
  When it comes to the vital business of dinner, we idealise the bespoke. Give us a seat in a 12-cover restaurant, with a kitchen so small there’s only space for the venerated head chef and someone to do their washing-up, and we’re happy. We want that cook’s hands to touch the ingredients we eat. We do not want to be part of some huge mass that merely needs servicing
  
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• The Cat’s Pyjamas, Leeds: restaurant review

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  Indian street food and craft beer is a great combo, and it could be coming to a high street near you soon
  The Cat’s Pyjamas, 9 Eastgate, Leeds LS2 7LY (0113 234 0454). Also in Headingley. Meal for two, including drinks and service: £60When it comes to the vital business of dinner, we idealise the bespoke. Give us a seat in a 12-cover restaurant, with a kitchen so small there’s only space for the venerated head chef and someone to do their washing-up, and we’re happy. We w
  
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• My ex-best friend is threatening to expose my private messages | Mariella Frostrup

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  Two women who work together have fallen out - now one says she is going to reveal their texts. Mariella Frostrup on internet indiscretionThe dilemma My (now ex) best friend and I work for the same organisation. In September she resigned, but I got a new senior position so offered her a role on my team, which she accepted. From day one she came in late, was texting all the time, didn’t do any work and was rude. Over time she became more abusive – belittling and undermining me. She eve
  
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• Britons have got a right to 'reel' in the face of terror attacks

  18-06-2017 07:00
  
  The Blitz spirit, nice cups of tea and counting blessings are all very well, but we’re being bullied into not expressing real fearsThis isn’t writing, this is fingers stamping on computer keys with the distracted force of 10 feet in shoes too tight. People often describe moods as clouds, dark and damp, hovering, but I have worn a corset in my life, and that feeling of restriction and breathlessness is a more accurate description. Yeah, I’m in a bad mood, consider this my coming
  
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• Milan menswear designers focus shows on millennials

  18-06-2017 00:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - Designers are resizing Milan Fashion Week for menswear, condensing previews for next spring and summer into just over three days.While New York and London's commitment to menswear has ...
  
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