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• Bourdain's death means loss of voice for immigrant workers

  10-06-2018 18:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Anthony Bourdain's culinary passions went far beyond the cuisine he put on a plate. He also was committed to the immigrant workers who toil in his and other kitchens throughout ...
  
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• 1,000s of Canadian breast cancer patients will reap reward of no-chemo study: experts

  10-06-2018 17:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - When Lisa Freedman was diagnosed with breast cancer, a genetic test of her tumour suggested chemotherapy would have no effect on the risk of recurrence, allowing her to ......
  
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• Put The Galaxy Where Your Mouth Is: Planet Lollipops

  10-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Have a big bang your mouth and suck one of those galaxy lollipops. In theory a fun sweet but to be honest I’m not a big fan of hard candy. It just makes me think about how the sugar will rott my tooth so I always go for a taste of it and then spit it out. But these galaxy suckers are pretty cool.
  From their product page:
  Our ingredients are sourced here locally in the United States. Flavors for our Galaxy Lollipops include: Melon Cotton Candy Green Apple Guava Watermelon Peach Pina Colada
  
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• Nigel Slater’s lemon thyme water ice and pistachio cookie recipes

  10-06-2018 12:59
  Soothing, sweet and piquant desserts to round off a lovely summer lunchAfter lunch, the table still scattered with crumbs, squeezed lemons and the shrapnel from the shells of a pile of grilled langoustines, we brought out fruit water ices to eat in the late afternoon shade. There was a sorbet of apricots, barely frozen, the colour of the setting sun, and another vivid with lemon and thyme. The sorbets cooled our tongues after the heat of the shellfish and for five minutes there was blissful sile
  
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• France’s Chausey Islands: all the tide in the world

  10-06-2018 12:00
  The vast tidal ranges of this timeless, car-free archipelago off the Normandy coast offer a shifting and magical seascapeIt’s low tide in the Chausey Islands and our barefoot group are peering into a shallow rock pool. Olivier, our guide, stoops to investigate: it holds a green crab, some shrimps and a clam, which he prizes open and offers us raw.A landscape of rocky outcrops, linked by swathes of rippled sand, stretches to the horizon. Bright green algae and clumps of darker seaweed cling
  
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• Laird Hamilton's age-busting 10-point plan to supercharge your body

  10-06-2018 10:00
  Laird Hamilton found fame and fortune surfing the world’s biggest breakers. But, as he tells Tim Lewis, his daredevil streak could easily have led him down more dangerous paths as a young man. Plus, he reveals his life secrets for staying ahead of the curveLaird Hamilton has ridden many of the tallest, heaviest, fastest and longest waves ever conquered by a human being. Even people who don’t like him – of which there are a few – have to concede that he’s one of the
  
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• I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by conversion therapy

  10-06-2018 09:00
  Born into a Baptist family, Garrard Conley was sent for conversion therapy to ‘treat’ his sexual identity. As his brave and bracing memoir is adapted into a film, he reveals why he still believes he is ‘one of the lucky ones’Here’s what Garrard Conley had to surrender the morning he arrived at the Love in Action facility in Memphis, Tennessee in 2004: his phone, his wallet, his driving licence and a Moleskine journal in which he wrote his short stories. A blond boy
  
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• The secret shame of being a sober mother

  10-06-2018 08:00
  After the birth of her second child, Amelia Hill gave up drinking. Little did she realise that her simple lifestyle choice would carry such a social stigmaI’ve got a dirty little secret: I’ve stopped drinking. I’m not an alcoholic. I don’t have an addictive personality. I’m in robust good health. I enjoy drinking. But after the birth of my second child three years ago, I became a sober mother. It wasn’t an obvious progression: I drank with the usual wanton ent
  
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• Fast-tracked to Amsterdam's high life and new hotels

  10-06-2018 08:00
  Now only a non-stop train ride from London, the Dutch capital offers calm beauty and eco innovation amid the beery hedonismI stood for a long time staring at the sign in the lobby of the Conscious Hotel, in Amsterdam’s Westerpark. A very long time. “Eco Sexy!” the sign read, like the Tinder bio of a freshly divorced vegan, or the aftermath of a tragic word bomb, with two fatalities and one jaunty exclamation mark. Eco Sexy also appears on the website, and in various emails. The
  
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• The decline and fall of a New York fantasy It Girl | Eva Wiseman

  10-06-2018 07:00
  Anna Delvey was the epitome of Manhattan high society chic. Except it turns out that she really wasn’t…Anna Delvey was a New York It Girl, a German heiress who flitted between boutique hotels as she raised funding to launch a new private members club, the Anna Delvey Foundation. She swam through Manhattan society on a stream of liquid cash, documented in expensive coats on magazines’ party pages, and masked with the cute cat filter on Snapchat. Except, if you’ve been on
  
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• The Coach, Farringdon: ‘Like greeting a much-missed old friend’ – restaurant review

  10-06-2018 07:00
  I remember the Coach in a more debauched era, when it was a Guardian and Observer pub, and it’s changed in so many ways but I’m glad it’s backThe Coach, 26-28 Ray Street, London EC1R 3DJ (020 3954 1595). Meal for two including drinks and service £90.It doesn’t matter how much titivation and knocking through they do to an old boozer to turn it gastro. If once you knew where the bogs were, you always know. The toilets never move. I could find my way to the facilities
  
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• Talking pictures: an expert’s guide to hanging them in your home

  10-06-2018 07:00
  There’s an art to it, and a lot of fun to be had, even on a limited budget“Art is a crucial layer in telling the story of a room,” says designer Martin Brudnizki. “It adds a whole other dimension to a space.” He should know. The mastermind behind some of London’s most sumptuous dining rooms, from the Ivy to J Sheekey, he recently unveiled a £55m makeover of Annabel’s. It’s art that helped to dictate the extreme maximalism of the Mayfair night
  
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• Should my daughter forgive her lover’s party-girl antics and take her back? | Dear Mariella

  10-06-2018 07:00
  Rather than choosing between adventure and thrills or settling down for the long haul, there is another way, says Mariella Frostrup – she could stay single and see what else comes alongThe dilemma Our daughter is 35 and is feeling distressed and, although she hasn’t asked for advice, I suspect she’d like to be told what to do. Her dilemma is whether she should give up her current relationship (of some six months) with a quiet, reliable, steady lady who loves her deeply but &ldq
  
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• Raymond Blanc: ‘A head chef threw a copper pan in my face and broke my jaw’

  10-06-2018 07:00
  The chef, 68, on his favourite park, relaxing around a table and how he knew he’d make itOn my perfect day, I would go for a beautiful walk in University Parks in Oxford. It is the most romantic, lovely park in Britain. I go at dawn at any time of the year. Whether it’s raining or peak summer, it is always pure harmony.When you’re a chef you’re so concerned with creating something sublime that when you relax you like the simple things. All I want to do is be with my gorge
  
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• Facial awareness: the meaning of a smile

  10-06-2018 07:00
  What exactly is a smile for, how do we do it and if we lose it, can we get it back?It’s one of the most fundamental things that humans do. Smile. Newborns can manage it spontaneously, as a reflex, and this is sometimes misinterpreted by new parents as a reaction to their presence, although it’s not until six to eight weeks of age that babies smile in a social way. That new parents optimistically interpret the first reflex smiles reflects the complexity of smiling: there is the physic
  
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• Crashing my bike restores my faith in ordinary people

  10-06-2018 07:00
  Strangers are not always comforting, but a nasty bicycle accident brings out the best in the good citizens of BristolI’m riding my bike through a tunnel, obsessively turning a thought over and over in my head, when my lack of attention causes me to clip the barrier separating the bike lane from the pedestrian lane, sending me crashing to the ground quite spectacularly. Why is this important?It’s because what happens afterwards is one of those rare moments that restores your faith in
  
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• Designer Craig Green is changing how men dress today

  10-06-2018 01:05
  The north Londoner combines outrageous artistic flair with a sound head for businessDon’t tell Craig Green what he can’t do. When the menswear designer started a Central Saint Martins art foundation course a decade ago, he thought he’d end up being a painter or sculptor. But on the first day, someone advised the students that whatever they were considering, it was probably best not to do fashion. “They said: ‘Don’t bother trying because it’s really compe
  
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• Peter Gordon's creamy mushroom and hazelnut soup recipe

  10-06-2018 00:02
  This semi-chunky soup is sure to warm you up this winterThis semi-chunky soup is simple to make and very tasty. You can make it from a variety of mushrooms or just plain old field mushrooms, but button mushrooms by themselves won’t have enough flavour. Walnuts work just as well as hazelnuts. Continue reading...
  
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