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• DIY doomsday food kits: how to eat well after the apocalypse

  11-03-2018 17:00
  Costco is selling food packages to survivalists for $6,000. Here’s what you need to make your own for less Those keen to survive Armageddon will be pleased to note a bargain in Costco this week. The US retail giant is selling $6,000 (£4,330) “doomsday prepper” food kits. Promising enough to feed a family of four for a year, these 600-can stacks contain freeze-dried carrots, egg noodles, quick oats, macaroni, freeze-dried banana slices and potato chunks, among many other s
  
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• Fishermen of baby eels expect high price as stocks dry up

  11-03-2018 15:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ROCKPORT, Maine - Members of Maine's baby-eel fishing industry are expecting high prices for the tiny fish this year because of a shortage on the international market, and sushi lovers ......
  
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• Maple syrup season gets early start in parts of New England

  11-03-2018 13:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. - The annual maple season got off to another early start with warmups in parts of New England, and producers are hopeful the recent cold and snow ...
  
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• Prize pooches and proud owners: Crufts 2018 – in pictures

  11-03-2018 13:22
  Over four days about 160,000 people will visit Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre for Crufts, one of the largest dog shows in the world Continue reading...
  
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• Four more quick lunch recipes for busy people | Rosie Birkett

  11-03-2018 13:00
  Four more in our series of quickly prepared, packable lunches for people who are always on the goMore quick lunch recipe ideas here.Makes 5-6: whisk 150g buckwheat flour with half a teaspoon each of salt and turmeric, a pinch each cumin seeds and mustard seeds (or whatever spice you prefer), and 300ml cold water. Rest for 10 minutes. Heat a little rapeseed or coconut oil in a nonstick frying pan on a high heat. Add a ladle of batter. Swirl around the pan and cook for two minutes or so, until it
  
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• Getting the full Japanese experience – in Bangkok

  11-03-2018 11:00
  Thailand’s capital, especially the central area of Sukhumvit, is home to a large Japanese community and has some fantastic Japanese bars and restaurantsI visited Bangkok expecting to eat a lot of Thai food, which I don’t think was unreasonable in the circumstances. So it was surprising that the most memorable meal of the trip turned out to be Japanese. Bangkok has one of the largest Japanese populations in Asia outside Japan. The official figures are about 50,000 but most estimates p
  
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• Ibiza in winter: unplugged but still on song

  11-03-2018 08:00
  Off-season, Ibiza reverts to its beguiling, unhurried self and its history and culture resurface, says the novelist, who has been visiting since childhood and set one of his books on the islandIt takes two hours to reach the Lost City. My guide, Toby Clarke from Walking Ibiza, leads me down a road that dwindles into barely perceptible paths rising and falling through the forest. Toby’s dog, Cosmo, runs off on long diversions, a flickering presence in the sea mist that drifts through the tr
  
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• Wilson Oryema, the model on a crusade against consumerism

  11-03-2018 07:00
  Wilson Oryema is a passionate advocate of anti-consumerism. He’s also one of fashion’s hottest new models. Lucy Siegle finds out how he squares the circleWilson Oryema models the names to know - in picturesThree and half years ago, Wilson Oryema was on a lunch break from his job as a charity finance administrator in Stockwell, south London, when he was scouted as a model. Weeks later he walked the runway for Maison Margiela at Paris Fashion Week. Afterwards he returned to his job and
  
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• This domestic abuse case might change the way women live | Eva Wiseman

  11-03-2018 07:00
  Sally Challen, who killed her husband in 2010, can appeal against her conviction because the law now recognises that domestic violence can include ‘coercive control’The word “domestic” has always struck me as a tricky one when followed by “violence”. Domestic feels cosy, small, the stakes are low, the radiator’s on, Pointless starts in a sec, the litter tray needs seeing to. All that gentle intimacy, all those scatter cushions, all that privacy. Which al
  
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• Russell Tovey: ‘When I started having sex I panicked because I didn’t feel old enough’

  11-03-2018 07:00
  The actor, 36, on always feeling that everything was happening too quickly, the positivity of New York and the calming influence of his partnerA question actors always get asked is: ‘What are you doing at the minute?’ I used to dread it because it made you feel like you were failing if you had nothing on. I got over that when I started to get very busy and began to realise that having a life is just as important as having a career.I do think acting can be as transformative as meditat
  
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• My mother’s memory is in my daughter’s hands | Nikesh Shukla

  11-03-2018 07:00
  Knowing she lives on, in this tiny way, helps me to grieve her deathMy daughter has my mother’s fingers, my father’s ankles and my eyebrows. As she grows, I can see the composites of my family in her. One night, as I go to tuck her in and stroke her hair before turning off the landing light, as I do every night, for just a fragment of a second, a pregnant pause that startles me, I see my mother’s face on her.It was a quick stab of an image change, like you might see in a h
  
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• Joe Trivelli’s seafood recipes

  11-03-2018 07:00
  ‘Zhoosh’ up a simple supper with shrimps, mussels or squidI didn’t think I was going to get away with testing these recipes at home, where sometimes even a fishfinger is a hard sell. How wrong I was. What these recipes have in common is using seafood as a seasoning to zhoosh up pasta or vegetables. These flavours can, though, be dropped to make vegetarian versions in every case. Just add olives, capers, extra chilli and bundles of fresh herbs instead. I also thought about mixin
  
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• Is taming your ambition the key to a better life? | Stefan Stern

  11-03-2018 07:00
  Brits can be ambivalent, at best, about aiming higher – maybe just earning a living and getting by is enoughWhat are you really aiming for in life? Do you still have goals? Perhaps you’ve abandoned your earlier dreams. Maybe you’re an embittered loser or perhaps you’re perfectly happy with where you’ve got to.Brits can be ambivalent, at best, about ambition. The vote for Brexit was greeted with jubilation by the 52% who wanted it. But the ambition of many Leave vote
  
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• How to glow in the cold | Gemma Cairney

  11-03-2018 07:00
  Sometimes you need a moisturiser that is both zingy and a calming balm in one tubeIt is ice cold out there, but I want to look glowy and supersonic. I want to look optimistic. Bobbi Brown’s Illuminating Moisture Balm not only smells zingy and citrusy but it lifts, luminises and puts pep in my step.I am into squirting this ‘power balm’ in between my thumb and forefinger, and mixing it with my foundation (with a nice big foundation brush as though mixing paints to splat on a canv
  
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• Fill the ‘hungry gap’ with Chinese cedar

  11-03-2018 07:00
  The Asian spring crop, common as an ornamental plant in British gardens, has delicious leavesSpring is in the air! But as any allotmenteer will know, the sad irony with seeing the first signs of new life burst forth is that it is usually one of the leanest months in the British veggie patch. Traditionally known as the “hungry gap”, this period describes the window where stocks of stored autumn and winter veg are running low, but the first spring crops have yet to mature. The term is
  
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• Farm Girl Café, Chelsea: ‘We don't stay for dessert, because we have suffered enough’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  11-03-2018 07:00
  The food was so bad, a nearby Yorkshire terrier started to look more appetisingFarm Girl Café, 9 Park Walk, London SW10 0AJ (020 3674 7359). Meal for two, including drinks and service £110The menu at the Farm Girl Café features lots of initials. There’s V for Vegan. There’s GF for Gluten Free. There’s DF for Dairy Free. I think they’re missing a few. There should be TF for Taste Free and JF for Joy Free and AAHYWEH for Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter He
  
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• Creating the ‘decadent twilight world’ of nightclubs

  11-03-2018 07:00
  Famous clubs have offered artists the perfect platform to design fantasy environmentsCaligula throwing a party,” was how the funk musician Rick James described the legendary Studio 54 in New York, which opened in 1977. There was a cocaine snorting “Man and the Spoon” feature that would descend from the ceiling when required, there were piles of cash in the back room, unisex bathrooms and stunts like Bianca Jagger riding a horse on the dancefloor led by a naked man covered in go
  
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• I’m in love with a man who won’t leave his long-term girlfriend | Dear Mariella

  11-03-2018 06:59
  You are nothing more to him than a pleasant diversion from his problems, Mariella tells a woman who doesn’t want to give up an affair. Move onThe dilemma I fell in love with a colleague who had a long-term girlfriend. Eight months after meeting him he told me he had been infatuated with me since I started, and we kissed. A few weeks later we slept together. He has told me his girlfriend is now his ex and I whole-heartedly believe him though he still lives with her, in the spare room. I spe
  
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