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• Dior travels back in time for couture-infused menswear

  20-01-2018 18:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Designer Kris Van Assche travelled back in a fashion time machine Saturday while Robert Pattinson explained the importance of clothes in acting roles as he attended Dior Homme's ......
  
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• Fashion fit to eat – in pictures

  20-01-2018 18:00
  Fresh watermelon skirts, parsley earrings, and dresses made from toast: using her background in fashion design, San Francisco-based artist Gretchen Röehrs, 28, creates stylish looks out of everyday foods. The project began when she taunted some snowed-in friends on the US east coast with colourful images of Californian fruit and vegetables. Using Japanese brush pens, she draws around each object to summon up vibrant, lively creations. “I find that women reflect the curves and lines in
  
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• Paul Bocuse, modest but grandiose French chef, dies at 91

  20-01-2018 17:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - He was modest about his accomplishments in the kitchen but grandiose in his dreams. Paul Bocuse credited his long reign as France's master chef to everything but himself: ...
  
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• The Latest: Chef at French presidential palace lauds Bocuse

  20-01-2018 16:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - The Latest on the death of French chef Paul Bocuse at 91 (all times local):4:30 p.m.The head chef at the Elysee presidential palace says the best way to ...
  
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• Paul Bocuse, globe-trotting master of French cuisine, dies

  20-01-2018 16:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Paul Bocuse, the master chef who defined French cuisine for more than half a century and put it on tables around the world, a man who raised the ...
  
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• Boohoo says its ‘sale’ will end in minutes – why is it back in a couple of hours?

  20-01-2018 15:10
  Countdown clocks and phrases such as ‘hurry now’ are used to to panic shoppers into buyingOn Monday night I saw that the Boohoo fashion website was having a fantastic sale – “20% off everything”. But I had to act pronto: “Hurry ends 11pm!” it shouted at me, or more accurately, the millions of 16- to 24-year-olds it targets. A countdown clock on screen warned that the sale would be over in just 54 minutes and 59 seconds. “Hurry ends soon!” mes
  
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• Husband will be picking up tab for future free lunch

  20-01-2018 15:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  There is such a thing as a free lunchEarlier this month, my husband and three of his friends went to Stella’s restaurant on Sherbrook Street for lunch.To their surprise, as ...
  
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• The Latest: "Chefs cry in their kitchens' at Bocuse's death

  20-01-2018 15:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - The Latest on the death of French chef Paul Bocuse at 91 (all times local):2:55 p.m.French President Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to Paul Bocuse, the man who embodied ...
  
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• Paul Bocuse, a master of French cuisine, dies at 91

  20-01-2018 14:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Paul Bocuse, the master chef who defined French cuisine for nearly half a century and put it on tables around the world, a man who raised the profile ...
  
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• Milton Keynes: UK capital of ‘right-to-buy-to-let’

  20-01-2018 13:13
  More council houses have been sold to private landlords in the town than anywhere else – then rented at up to triple the priceThe floor in Elina Apse’s house on the Netherfield council estate in Milton Keynes is so cold that when one of her four children spills anything it freezes by the morning. She cannot phone the council to complain because she is renting from one of the town’s many private landlords, who have taken advantage of the right-to-buy policy to hoover up social h
  
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• Greg Rutherford’s food diary | How I eat

  20-01-2018 12:00
  What does it take to fuel a champion? The 2012 Olympic gold-medal winner reveals his daily food diaryI generally eat between 8-9am, once I’ve sorted out my three-year-old – he loves my omelettes. It’s always one of three things: full-fat Greek yoghurt with mixed fruit (berries, mango, pineapple), almonds, hazelnuts, cinnamon and honey; omelette (four eggs), dry fried or with coconut oil, with watercress, spinach, smoked salmon and cottage cheese; or, before a big workout, porri
  
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• The Fordwich Arms, Fordwich, Kent: ‘A good first day in a new job’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent

  20-01-2018 11:00
  The smallest town in the country is set for an influx of outsiders after the re-opening of this brilliant pubDeclaring in print that any new joint is a blissful find is probably a spurious blessing. Presently, Fordwich, three miles east of Canterbury and officially Britain’s smallest town, is gorgeously unspoiled. By this I mean Fordwich is unbesmirched by Londoners, who, as I write, lie a mere 63 miles away and are now reading that Dan Smith, an ex-Clove Club chef, has taken harness of a
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi's three-course feast

  20-01-2018 10:30
  All celebrations call for a feast, and this is no different: a punchy starter, a glorious prawn salad and a cheesecake with a twistFind more recipes and inspiration in our new food magazine, Feast – issue 1 is in today’s Guardian. The word “feast” means different things to different people, but there is something unequivocally celebratory about a three-course meal that takes time to shop for, prepare and serve. It’s the intention that counts, and a proper sit-down m
  
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• The secret to getting on with your child’s partner

  20-01-2018 10:30
  Don’t create problems, keep the channels of communication open and be welcomingWe don’t have to love everyone. Your child’s partner might not be your cup of tea. How good does the relationship have to be? It needs to be functioning, safe and mutually beneficial; but it’s not you living with, loving or having sex with this person. Accept that your child has made a choice.Be welcoming. They might be anxious or nervous. Be gently curious and get to know them. Don’t go
  
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• Tickets: is this the system to finally beat the touts?

  20-01-2018 10:00
  Ticketmaster’s new software will trawl Facebook and Twitter to check if you’re a ‘genuine’ fanYou might think you’re a real fan of an artist or show, but how far would you be prepared to go to get your hands on tickets to see them?Would you be willing to hand over your personal information – name, phone number, email address and so on – to a faceless third party, and let someone nose around your Facebook page and Twitter feed, so they can try to establis
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for sprout nasi goreng

  20-01-2018 10:00
  This Malaysian fried rice dish is so deliciously filthy, you may well scrap takeaways altogetherExplore more recipes and inspiration in our new food magazine, Feast – issue 1 is in today’s Guardian. Sometimes, all you really want is something with that sort of filthy and delicious taste that I used to think only a good takeaway could provide – until I accidentally recreated it while writing this recipe for Malaysian nasi goreng. It’s fried rice, but not as you know it: sm
  
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• Kate Moss: ‘I still get excited – I’m still shocked when I get a campaign’

  20-01-2018 10:00
  The model talks wild times, heroes and her charity shop habit with photographer David BaileyKate Moss Right. We’ve been given some questions, and I’m going to ask you: “What is the wildest shoot or trip you’ve been on together?” We haven’t been on any trips together – but the wildest shoot?David Bailey Every shoot we ever do. Continue reading...
  
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• Damaraland, Namibia: where ‘each day lasts 100 hours’

  20-01-2018 10:00
  Pico Iyer’s biggest holiday challenge used to be ‘filling the days till they burst’. But nine days in the desert of Namibia with nothing much to do was a liberating experience I walked out into the desert just as the sun was beginning to show above the mountains. I’d been advised not to step out of my bungalow in north-west Namibia while it was dark: there were lion tracks only a few steps away. But now a spotted eagle owl was flapping out of the bushes and beating its b
  
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• Where to move for wellbeing

  20-01-2018 09:00
  Where’s the best place to live in the UK if you want to be well? (Hint: it has green hills, decent house prices and lots of sheep) I’d like to be well, wouldn’t you? Well, well-er. I’m OK. Midlife dampens expectations, and I’m easy to please. But where could I be well-er?Quality of life indices boomed in late-70s America, as a way of charting – and promoting – places after the urban crisis when New York nearly went bust. They arrived in the UK during Dav
  
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• ‘I don't do cheat days’: Dina Asher-Smith's work/life balance

  20-01-2018 09:00
  The 22-year-old sprinter on being in bed by 10.30pm, food as fuel and needing to grow upSleep
  I’m always in bed by 10.30pm, and my phone is off by 11pm. Sleep and training are my highest priorities and I need a minimum of eight hours’ sleep. You can train yourself to be better at it; I won’t lie on my bed unless I’m going to sleep. If I’m travelling to a different time zone, I’ll start adjusting before I leave. I’ll get up at 4am, even if I’m a zom
  
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• How to make a big career change

  20-01-2018 09:00
  First, develop an unwavering self-belief, says Sharmadean Reid. Then swot up - you need to know your stuffSometimes the hardest part is getting everyone else on board with the idea that you want something new. It’s not an intrinsically British thing to encourage people who want to do something different; there’s a reason we have the phrase “above your station”.First, you need to develop an unwavering self-belief. You’re going to smash it – and you should say t
  
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• Can I cook like ... Emmanuel Macron

  20-01-2018 09:00
  The French president is fond of cordon bleu and a whole lot of fruitThere’s an old American saying that before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes. This gave rise to a joke almost as old, which is that once you’ve done that, you can do what you like, because they’re a mile away and you’ve got their shoes. In any case, it’s not true. If you really want to understand someone, you eat what they eat.Centrist hottie and French president Emmanuel Macron is one o
  
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• What links Diego Maradona in Rosario and John Coltrane in San Francisco? The Weekend quiz

  20-01-2018 08:00
  From a charity to Lake Chad, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which epic poem is about a hero of the Geats?
  2 Who would exhibit the Moro reflex?
  3 Which charity was founded by Emily Williamson as the Plumage League?
  4 Which mountain is known locally as Yr Wyddfa?
  5 Where is the Ruperto Carola University?
  6 Who were the state-owned serfs of ancient Sparta?
  7 What, according to JR Seeley, was acquired “in a fit of absence of mind”?
  8 Which pioneering Austrian psychiatrist die
  
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• Fit in my 40s: can a running coach make me go faster?

  20-01-2018 08:00
  The personal trainer Matt Roberts is so high-end that David Cameron was a client. He’s going to assess my running styleI feel about the word “runner” the way I felt about “mother” when I’d just had a baby – that it was completely fraudulent. You can’t call yourself a runner until you can run for longer than 90 seconds at a time. But you can’t force yourself out running when you’re not a runner. It’s a puzzler, right?That’s w
  
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• Elena Ferrante: 'I loved that boy to the point where I felt close to fainting'

  20-01-2018 08:00
  In the first of a new weekly series, the novelist recalls her first loveSome time ago, I planned to describe my first times. I listed a certain number of them: the first time I saw the sea, the first time I flew in an aeroplane, the first time I got drunk, the first time I fell in love, the first time I made love. It was an exercise both arduous and pointless.For that matter, how could it be otherwise? We always look at first times with excessive indulgence. Even if by their nature they’re
  
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• Pope performs mid-air wedding

  20-01-2018 07:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Pope Francis celebrated the first-ever airborne papal wedding on Thursday, marrying two flight attendants from Chile’s flagship airline at 36,000 feet during a flight from Santiago.Bride Paula Podest, 39, and ...
  
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• Career assassination or #metoo moment?

  20-01-2018 07:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Last weekend, the website Babe published the account of an anonymous 23-year-old woman under the headline: “I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night ...
  
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• The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items an hour

  20-01-2018 07:30
  Aaron Callaway is 24 and works four nights a week alongside robots in the retailer’s warehouseIf I’ve learned anything from doing this job, it’s that money can’t replace time. I work four nights a week in an Amazon warehouse near my home in Southend-on-Sea. It’s quite a cold place to work and, apart from two half-hour meal breaks, I’m on my feet for 10 and a half hours. I scan the items the trucks bring in from distributors and place them into the right cart f
  
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• 20 of the best adventure travel challenges for 2018

  20-01-2018 07:30
  Marathon cycles meet epic swims and uplifting hikes in our guide to the best breaks that, from the Lake District to the Sahara, will get you off the sofa and into the great outdoors Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Discovering my true sexual self’: why I embraced polyamory

  20-01-2018 07:00
  My husband and I were together for 12 years and had two children – but while he was happy with one person, I needed moreIt was the hardest thing I’d ever had to say to my husband, Marc. Three years ago, I sat down and told him: “The idea of having sex just with you for the next 40 years – I can’t do it any more.” But I had come to realise that my life was built around something I didn’t believe in: monogamy.We had been together for 12 years and had two c
  
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• Blind date: ‘She was thoughtful enough to wear a necklace with her name on’

  20-01-2018 07:00
  How did 25-year-olds Thom, an auditor, and Grace, a learning coordinator, get along?What were you hoping for?Interesting conversation. Continue reading...
  
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• Costa Rica's first gay marriage suffers bureaucratic hitch

  20-01-2018 01:25
  SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's first same-sex wedding has been blocked by notaries who are refusing to recognize it until laws forbidding gay marriage are changed, setting them at odds with the...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,884

  20-01-2018 01:00
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  20-01-2018 01:00
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