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• Mainers hold 1st Moxie Festival since death of founder

  08-07-2017 13:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LIBSON, Maine - Mainers are holding the 35th annual celebration of all things Moxie without the event founder who helped to introduce the quirky beverage to a new generation.Frank Anicetti, ......
  
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• The 10 ways recipes are undermining your cooking | Comment

  08-07-2017 13:00
  
  Many recipes just aren’t up to scratch. They overcomplicate both the dishes and the act of cooking, demoralising the very people they aim to help. Here are 10 tips for chefs to raise their teaching game ...“Only bell-ends write open letters.” Whoever said that – if it wasn’t Shakespeare it must have been Oscar Wilde – had a point. All the same, I’ve taken the liberty of writing one. It’s to all the food writers and chefs who serve up recipes, in pr
  
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• Beans in tatters? Help is at hand

  08-07-2017 12:00
  
  It’s not too late to plant some varieties of dwarf or climbing beans, which you will be able to pick into the autumnAre your beans in tatters, failing to wind their way up a pole, looking sad from battling with too many pests? Mine were doing fine, and then some early June rain brought out the slugs, and that was that.However, it is not too late to start all over again. You will not get rows of climbing beans, mind, the season is too short for that, but dwarf beans will germinate quickly t
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for caramelised peach pastries | King of puddings

  08-07-2017 11:00
  
  Ripe and unadorned, a peach is one of life’s purest joys, but they also lend themselves to fantastical flights of fancy, such as when caramelised in this whimsical French pastryThose two terrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who make a misery of little orphan James’s life, are suitably undone by a giant peach – the dreadful duo are squashed when it detaches from its tree.A tale of a peach made into a pudding may not have the magical, fantastical qualities as that conjured by the m
  
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• Fizzy milk or crunchy cheese, anyone? The food of the future

  08-07-2017 11:00
  
  Food scientists are battling to overcome dairy and carbs’ image problem – but will mealworms and 3D-printed pasta really win consumers back?A man in skinny jeans and a bow tie is standing by a whiteboard with various buzzwords written on it: empathy, respect, create. He is leading a corporate bonding day for about 20 workers in an airy atrium, and moves over to start playing Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer on a keyboard, imploring staff to dance. “Come on, don’t
  
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• The new vegan: potato, chard and coconut curry recipe | Meera Sodha

  08-07-2017 10:30
  
  A curry that makes the most of summer’s finest vegetablesOnce upon a time, vegans were a relatively small bunch, at least in the UK, but no longer: the meat-free way of life is as alive and kicking as the animals it cherishes, on supermarket shelves, in restaurants and in the kitchens of hundreds of thousands around the country.Vegetables are the backbone of my diet, because I was born into a Gujarati family. Although Gujarat looks out on to the fish-filled Arabian sea, many of its 62
  
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• ‘Before election night, I went for a burger': how do newsreaders escape the news?

  08-07-2017 10:30
  
  Emily Maitlis goes for a run with the dog, Krishnan Guru-Murthy plays guitar. In the midst of a relentless news cycle, frontline reporters reveal how they switch offIn the midst of June’s post-election mayhem, my eight-year-old daughter told me she was going to confiscate my phone. That’s when I knew things had got out of control. I try to keep mealtimes sacred, but my husband is a total news addict like me, so we often get only halfway through dinner before we have to check Twitter
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the woman who is grateful for her abortion

  08-07-2017 10:00
  
  I felt idiotic and irresponsible, but spent little time soul-searching – my decision was clearI never wanted children. In school I worried about the growing human population, joining Save the Whales, Save the Forests, Save the Orangutan. I vowed not to add another consumer to the globe. When I became sexually active at 17, I trotted down to the local clinic for birth control pills.At 28 and having relocated for a good job, unaccompanied by the love of my life who had promised to
  
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• Easy Ottolenghi summer recipes: vegetables | Yotam Ottolenghi

  08-07-2017 10:00
  
  The first rule of cooking with vegetables in summer is to use the bright colours of the season to paint your plateEasy Ottolenghi summer: starters and snacksEasy Ottolenghi summer: meat and fishEasy Ottolenghi summer: puddingsContinue reading...
  
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• Brooklyn Beckham got a book deal on merit? Pull the other one

  08-07-2017 10:00
  
  Nepotism is inevitable, but self-entitlement is toxic, which is why it is essential to call out this kind of crapIt’s always interesting to see what hill a person will die on – which cause they will defend, no matter what the risk to their ability to look themselves in the mirror afterwards. For some (me), that cause is the argument that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is artistically superior to any other movie ever made. And for others, it is that the children of the famous should n
  
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• Beauty: black liquid eyeliner | Sali Hughes

  08-07-2017 09:00
  
  Sometimes it’s fun to bring back the chic flickCan we talk about black liquid eyeliner? It’s been a while, chiefly because I became a bit bored with the swooshy, Marilyn-style flicks over complex-shadowed lids that are near-ubiquitous on Instagram, and decided to park them for a bit, opting instead for smudgy, smoky, soft dark brown, grey or navy pencil. But a recent rewatch of A Bout De Souffle, starring pixie-cropped, gamine Jean Seberg, reminded me of how wonderfully chi
  
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• All the places I'll never live: a castle

  08-07-2017 09:00
  
  If you’re a member of generation rent, could a place with a moat be the answer to troublesome landlords?As I hurtle towards my 30th birthday, personal space is top of my wishlist. Like many people my age, I don’t own a property. I’ll never own a castle, obviously, but I’ll also never own a Cotswolds cottage, an Edinburgh town house, a cosy studio or a two-up two-down doer-upper. Instead, over the past 10 years I’ve lived in various flatshares, with all kinds of char
  
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• Which Cuban reportedly turned down millions to fight Muhammad Ali? The Weekend quiz

  08-07-2017 08:00
  
  From boxing to the holiest city in Hinduism, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Dolly Pentreath was reputedly the last native speaker of what language?
  2 The Pillars Of Hercules appear on which country’s coat of arms?
  3 What is the most abundant element in the body?
  4 Which Cuban reportedly turned down millions to fight Muhammad Ali?
  5 The Pelican that left Plymouth in 1577 returned as what?
  6 Who “wast not born for death”, according to Keats?
  7 Which French resistance
  
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• Fit in my 40s: 'The brute fact is, something must be done'

  08-07-2017 08:00
  
  I’m going to do whatever it takes not to decay faster than other peopleI know all about mortality. I’ve known about this stuff for years. When I was young, I went out with a guy who was 20 years older than me, the age I am now. He discussed his health – I don’t know, sometimes a memory is a caricature, but I think it was all day long. It was like listening to Radio 4: the hard talk in the morning (cancer, MS, early-onset dementia); the speculative What If? mid-morning mag
  
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• Are cheaper car tyres a false economy?

  08-07-2017 08:00
  
  The difference is hundreds of pounds, but we don’t know what to doEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• A letter to … Myself, who let life happen to her

  08-07-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou had no idea how beautiful you were in your youth. Not the dishonest beauty of glossy magazine covers, but the inherent beauty in the promise of the life ahead of you.What did you do with that person, who had so much to offer to the world? You hid her behind the security blanket of convention and expectation. You allowed life to steer you around the course, and you excused yourself by saying you were too this, or too that. Was it arrogance or reticence tha
  
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• How an old photograph has helped me with the death of my father

  08-07-2017 07:30
  
  One picture shows a father and son, the other just the son in the same place years later. What has changed and what does it mean? Giulia Rhodes talks to Simon Bray about loss, and the spaces people leave when they die‘If the sun was up and Dad was home, then he was probably in the garden with a cup of tea,” says Simon Bray. “In my childhood, everything happened out there.”While his father, Peter, tended flowers, lawn, fruit and vegetables, Simon and his sister, Jess, rode
  
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• Why Netflix is the Ramadan faster’s friend

  08-07-2017 07:00
  
  At 3am when you are chopping vegetables for your early meal, there’s nothing finer than a nimble comedy on a small screenDid you know that Ramadan sleep patterns exist to remind you of your mortality? Last month’s nights gave me a glimpse into what life might be like for new parents, pulled out of bed and walking around zombie-eyed the next day. And I did it on my own. If you imagined a solo Ramadan as a minor tragedy, it’s even worse when you’re away from famil
  
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• Why I wrote the sex manual I’d have loved as a teenager

  08-07-2017 07:00
  
  The Spanish YouTuber Chusita gives young people honest, down-to-earth advice on sex in her new book, This Is Not a Sex BookAt a recent book signing in Barcelona, Spanish YouTuber Chusita was approached by two parents with their teenage daughter.Although Chusita’s book is a sex guide for her teenage fans and followers, she sometimes hears from parents who thank her for writing it, and for helping them broach a difficult subject. Some have told her they’ve sat down with their teen
  
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• Blind date: ‘We met on a catwalk in front of a few thousand people’

  08-07-2017 07:00
  
  Frankie, 47, education consultant, and Bruce, 40, company director met at Manchester international festivalWhat were you hoping for?
  Someone not really tall. I’m not the tallest, so that would have been slightly awkward. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,717

  08-07-2017 01:00
  
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  08-07-2017 01:00
  
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• Brussels celebrates annual Ommegang festival, costumes and all

  08-07-2017 00:31
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Revelers wearing Renaissance helmets, feathers and striped pantaloons paraded through Brussels on Friday in a tradition stretching back five centuries to the zenith of the city's...
  
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• Swiss museum readies for Nazi-era art trove show, seeks works' heirs

  08-07-2017 00:28
  
  BERN (Reuters) - A Swiss museum director preparing for a Nazi-era art collection's long-awaited public unveiling later this year said Friday that her goal remains finding heirs to any works that may...
  
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