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• Greek police arrest 7 for selling bogus olive oil

  26-11-2017 18:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  THESSALONIKI, Greece - Greek police have arrested seven people allegedly involved in fraudulently selling large quantities of adulterated sunflower oil as olive oil in Greece and abroad.A family of four ......
  
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• Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico

  26-11-2017 18:05
  Iberian ham has become the latest sought-after luxury from the west in China, but demand is outstripping supplyHaving discovered the joys of French wine, caviar and truffles, China’s new rich are turning to a new gourmet delicacy to satisfy their demand for luxury goods from the west: Spain’s jamón ibérico, or Iberian ham. But demand is now threatening to outstrip supply, leaving Spaniards facing steep price rises in their most prized Christmas delicacy.The recent lifti
  
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• Fortify yourself: a guide to sherry, the UK’s surprisingly on-trend tipple

  26-11-2017 17:00
  With reports showing sherry sales have risen 41%, here’s where to start with the drink usually written off as your great-aunt’s favourite
  Forget politics: if you want real fake news, see every article that has appeared in the past two decades trumpeting the great British sherry revival – I should know, I’ve written a fair few of them myself. Wine geeks can wax as lyrical as they like about the complexity and variety of this Spanish fortified wine but, to Joe Public, sherr
  
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• Reggie Yates: When I was an inmate in Texas, breakfast was disgusting

  26-11-2017 13:30
  The actor, DJ and documentary maker on dieting with Siberian models and loving a cheeky pina coladaI went to Ghana for the first time at four or five years old. My mother wasn’t with my father any more and it’s a holiday she took herself, me and my sister on. As an adult I’ve been a few times. I went back there for a documentary on the world’s largest e-waste dump in Agbogbloshie and I took our director to eat street cuisine, breakfast and soup, which at home is thrown to
  
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• Nicola Adams: ‘I can’t start a family while I’m still boxing. But it’s something I’d like to do’

  26-11-2017 13:30
  The double Olympic champion on early family battles, the psychology of the ring, and the two women who have been the bedrock of her lifeA tracksuited Nicola Adams walks into 34 Mayfair in the West End of London much in the way you’ve seen her approach the boxing ring or carry the union jack around the track for Team GB: quietly confident, smiling fit to burst, keen to get at it. A couple of nights before our lunch the double Olympic champion had gone three rounds in front of a home crowd i
  
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• The 50 best Christmas wines for 2017

  26-11-2017 12:30
  Observer Food Monthly’s selection of the best bottles from high street bargains to the top of the rangeDe Bortoli DB Family Reserve Botrytis Semillon, New South Wales, Australia 2013 (£6.98, 37.5cl, Asda)
  Making use of all this firm’s expertise with “nobly rotten” late-harvested grapes (De Bortoli makes one of Australia’s finest sweet wines, Noble One) this golden, sticky, tangy elixir works like an antipodean sauternes for pairing with puddings or stilton. Co
  
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• Christmas gift ideas for foodies

  26-11-2017 12:30
  Observer Food Monthly’s choice of gift ideas for Christmas 2017, from stocking fillers and budget presents to no-expense-spared treats Continue reading...
  
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• The great Christmas taste test 2017

  26-11-2017 12:00
  Observer Food Monthly’s bumper review of high street cheese, chocolates, pies, cakes, puddings and more. And yes, our star reviewers shall go to the ball … Continue reading...
  
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• Classic German recipes for Christmas cookies

  26-11-2017 11:00
  Advent is the perfect time for baking biscuits, and German Christmas cookies – sweet and spiced – are the best there are, be it for afternoon tea platters or festive giftsAlmost everyone I know here in Berlin, young or old, heads to the kitchen to bake Christmas cookies in early December – even those who spend the rest of the year firmly on the other side of the house from the oven.Advent Sundays are when friends and family come over for biscuits, instead of the usual cakes or
  
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• Our safe haven: how we made ourselves at home in Britain

  26-11-2017 10:00
  For people arriving in Britain, creating a familiar space is the first step to settling in. Kieran Yates visits people from Bangladesh, Iran, Syria and elsewhere, to hear how they are making themselves at home in this unfamiliar countryThis year, the idea of home has been challenged. It has felt increasingly unstable for many immigrants who have settled here, especially those who escaped conflict, only to face the fallout of Brexit Britain, or witness the nightmarish Grenfell Tower fire on news
  
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• Nigel Slater’s shortbread recipes

  26-11-2017 08:00
  Browning nuts, butter and flour is a fine art that takes patience. But it’s worth mastering for this best of all biscuits
  The kitchen is especially toasty this morning. Yes, it is warm from the oven, but more than that, it smells deeply of almonds, hazelnuts, butter and toasted flour. Lightly browning nuts, butter and flour will accentuate their flavour. While toasted nuts simply taste more of themselves, flour, unsurprisingly, takes on the malty character of hot toast, and browned butter
  
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• The day Grace Jones told me she 'loved the smell' of my film

  26-11-2017 07:00
  It’s 2002, London, the first showing of a film about Grace Jones’s brother, and someone exciting walks in and sits down at the frontI made Hoover Street Revival about Grace’s brother, Noel, a Pentecostal bishop, back in 2002. I met her at the first showing of the film. She happened to be in London and she just sort of turned up at the screening room. It was a really intimate setting and her arrival was a delightful surprise.I could tell she was enjoying the film as she was whoo
  
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• Should I report sexual harassment if I then slept with the man?

  26-11-2017 07:00
  A reader wonders whether she should call out a senior staff member who pestered her inappropriately, before they had a relationshipThe dilemma Should I report sexual harassment I received even though I later had a sexual relationship with the harasser? Years ago I worked as a volunteer for a political party and while showing me some work on a computer, a senior staff member repeatedly touched my knee. He said sorry, and then did it again, about seven times. He finished by saying: “I’
  
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• Rochelle Bar and Canteen, London: ‘This food feels right’ – restaurant review

  26-11-2017 07:00
  Brilliant British food served in one of London’s grandest buildings… Lunch can be such joyRochelle Bar and Canteen at the ICA, the Mall, London SW1Y 5AH (020 7930 8619). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £90While we are having lunch at the newly opened Rochelle Bar and Canteen inside the ICA on the Mall, two open horse-drawn carriages pass by outside. They are carrying the recently appointed ambassadors from Lithuania and Uganda who had been at the Palace presenting
  
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• Jail house rocks… an architectural marvel built over a prison vault

  26-11-2017 07:00
  Hidden House in Clerkenwell, London, contender for Riba House of the Year, is a triumph of design ingenuity over challenging site contraintsVisitors to Hidden House, in London’s Clerkenwell, often need a little help to find it. It’s virtually invisible from three sides because it nestles into the angles of an old boundary wall that runs between back gardens and an imposing Victorian school. As owner Selim Bayer explains: “You’re walking around the wall and suddenly there&
  
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• Pope's South Asia trip brings hope to tiny Catholic groups

  26-11-2017 03:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DHAKA, Bangladesh - Pope Francis on Monday begins a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh.While attention will focus on how Francis addresses the Rohingya Muslim crisis, the trip also holds ......
  
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