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• Cider-makers forage for old wild apple flavour

  15-10-2017 19:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ROCHESTER, Vt. - With a vigorous shake of a tree limb, small wild apples rain down onto a plastic tarp at an old farmstead in Vermont.David Dolginow, co-founder of Shacksbury ......
  
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• Germans clash at 'new right' publisher's book fair event

  15-10-2017 18:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BERLIN - Police say a heated clash between left-wing and right-wing groups at the Frankfurt Book Fair has resulted in three arrests.Frankfurt police said the confrontation happened late Saturday at ......
  
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• Party animals: why 50 is the new 21

  15-10-2017 18:00
  Sales of 50th birthday cards and party paraphernalia have overtaken those marking 21sts, and 50th bashes have the most guests. Time to befriend lots of people in their late 40s …Name: The 50th birthday.Age: Um, 50. Continue reading...
  
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• Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous

  15-10-2017 16:00
  Lucian Freud had breakfast at the same restaurant every morning for 15 years, Balzac drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day and Steve Jobs spent weeks at a time eating only apples and carrotsTheir eating habits may not be quite as “insane” as former royal chef Darren McGrady branded them earlier this month, but the British royal family have their share of foibles around food. The Queen hates garlic and eats off diamond-encrusted plates, but also munches fruit out of yellow Tupperware. T
  
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• Observer Food Monthly Awards 2017: the winners - in pictures

  15-10-2017 12:30
  All the winners from this year’s awards, from best food personality to best cookbook, photographed exclusively for Observer Food Monthly Continue reading...
  
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• 2017's best UK Sunday lunch – A Rule of Tum's Bookshop, Hereford

  15-10-2017 12:00
  The secret to the success of this year’s OFM award winner, as voted for by readers? The finest local produce and gravy that takes a week to makeOver the past three years, A Rule of Tum has spearheaded a culinary renaissance in an area that had hitherto been passed over by the national resurgence of interest in food and drink. With two adjacent restaurants in Hereford and one in Worcester, they were regional runners-up for the Ethical and Cheap Eats prizes last year, and now the company fin
  
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• Fruit, prawns off the menu at China's austere party Congress

  15-10-2017 08:04
  BEIJING (Reuters) - No free fruit in hotel rooms, no free hair cuts and no prawns on the menu - delegates at this week's Communist Party Congress in China can expect austere treatment in keeping with...
  
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• Sex and the City 3 could have been the best worst film ever

  15-10-2017 07:00
  They’re canning it and, judging by the last one, we should thank themLast week you may have noticed a thousand stiletto metaphors being sharpened and weaponised when Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed that after a long period of rumour and antipathy the third Sex and the City movie definitely wasn’t happening. “It’s over,” she said, doomily. “It’s not just disappointing that we don’t get to tell the story and have that experience, but more so for that
  
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• How our visual memories are made | Mark Cousins

  15-10-2017 07:00
  Meeting a young Syrian refugee inspires Mark Cousins to imagine how different our defining images can beWe have work lives and love lives, but we also have looking lives. If we’re lucky enough to have eyesight, an inner photo album accrues throughout our lives. On its pages are the sunsets we’ve seen, the dead bodies, and many other defining images – these are the visual shocks and pleasures which help us understand and read emotion.In a refugee camp in Calais last year, I play
  
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• Brain game: the freaky factor of artificial intelligence | Daniel Glaser

  15-10-2017 07:00
  The more human-like robots are, the more disturbing we find them. Here’s why…The release of Blade Runner 2049 has once again inspired us to imagine what it would be like if the distinction between artificial life and humans all but disappeared. Once something else is almost as ‘real’ as us, the idea of what it means to be human is challenged.Neuroscientists know already that such a scenario is disturbing to us – thanks to a phenomenon known as Uncanny Valley. In th
  
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• My three children say they never want to see me again | Dear Mariella

  15-10-2017 06:59
  Mariella Frostrup tells a distressed mother that she must look to the past for clues to the situation she finds herself in nowThe dilemma I am a loving mum of three happy, intelligent children in their 20s who are at college. Ten years ago my marriage with their father broke down while we were living abroad. I feel my efforts were never appreciated, as their father is very domineering. I remain in Europe, but my children are back in London and see their father often. For five years I have been l
  
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• How cool are you? Personality quiz | Ben Ambridge

  15-10-2017 06:59
  Whether you are the rough and rebellious type or the charismatic thrill-seeking sort, this short test will reveal what sort of ‘cool’ you areAre you as cool as a cucumber? Or as naff as a 40-year-old using slang from the 1990s? To find out, simply tick off each of the personality traits you think you possess on each of the lists below.List AThrill-seeking; unconventional; hedonistic (eg partying, self-indulgence); pro-social values (eg caring, unselfish); driven for success; friendly
  
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• Kepos Street Kitchen's beetroot and salmon salad recipe

  15-10-2017 02:12
  The couple behind Sydney’s popular Middle Eastern restaurants share the dishes they cook for themselves, friends and family Kepos Street Kitchen’s asparagus, pea and feta tart recipeMichael Rantissi believes in finding the most beautiful ingredient – a tomato or beetroot, for example – and then making that the hero by preparing it simply and dressing it with a few other things that bring out its beautiful flavours. His salads feature simple ingredients and can be eaten as
  
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• 5 ways to wear… a cord shirt – in pictures

  15-10-2017 00:55
  You’ll hear a lot about corduroy this autumn/winter, thanks to Prada’s runway – and this Raey shirt is one of the most versatile pieces you’ll find Continue reading...
  
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• Reasons to wear... winter florals – in pictures

  15-10-2017 00:50
  It’s an easy transition from summer’s light and ditsy patterns to winter’s rich, dark blooms – from Marks & Spencer’s brocade jacket to Dune London’s carved heels Continue reading...
  
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