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• Hedi Slimane unveils debut menswear show for Celine in Paris

  20-01-2019 21:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Passers-by gathered outside the giant glass windows of Celine's traffic-stopping show venue Sunday night: erected in Paris' sparkling Place de la Concorde, which is also used as a ......
  
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• Revealed: Spice Girls T-shirts made in factory paying staff 35p an hour

  20-01-2019 19:00
  Workers producing tops sold to raise money for Comic Relief receive far below a living wage‘Inhuman conditions’: life in factory making Spice Girls T-shirtsSpice Girls T-shirts sold to raise money for Comic Relief’s “gender justice” campaign were made at a factory in Bangladesh where women earn the equivalent of 35p an hour during shifts in which they claim to be verbally abused and harassed, a Guardian investigation has found.The charity tops, bearing the message &
  
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• Prayer with the pope just a click away with new app

  20-01-2019 18:31
  Pope Francis swiped a tablet on Sunday to launch a new app allowing the faithful to pray with him, and expressed his pain over the car bomb blast in Colombia and the latest Mediterranean migrant...
  
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• Group challenges ruling requiring doctors to give referrals for services that clash with beliefs

  20-01-2019 16:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Ontario doctors challenging a court ruling that found physicians must give referrals for medical services that clash with their moral or religious beliefs say there is no proof ......
  
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• Roadkill for dinner? Rules vary by province and territory in Canada

  20-01-2019 16:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Jeremy Vander Meer had his first experience with salvaging a roadkill moose soon after he moved to Alaska nearly five years ago."It was pretty easy, actually," he said in an ...
  
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• These Bathtubs Will Make You Want to Soak for Hours

  20-01-2019 13:00
  While most people prefer to take showers, there’s something about being able to soak in a bathtub that’s downright therapeutic. You can just sit and relax in a tub in a way that’s not possible when you take a shower. Being submerged in water can actually relieve stress and soothe aching muscles. And when you add bubble bath – well, that’s another level of relaxation.
  If you’re a shower person, these bathtubs might change your mind. Here’s what you need t
  
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• How malbec scaled the heights

  20-01-2019 13:00
  The rise of the grape that’s at its best on mountain slopes is an epic taleThe story of malbec is an epic that begins in south-west France, and takes in vine plagues, medieval trade wars and a long struggle for recognition. Then it switches gears into a classic new-world rags-to-riches tale that concludes with the variety finally securing global fame from a lofty perch in vineyards in the Andes in western Argentina.Until relatively recently I wouldn’t have said the wines made from th
  
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• Giles Yeo: ‘Love your food but don’t eat quite as much of it as you want’

  20-01-2019 13:00
  The obesity expert and author of Gene Eating on fad diets, the magic of miso and why he can’t say no to pork scratchingsDr Giles Yeo arrives for lunch in Cambridge by bike from his research lab at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. In a corner of the Oak bistro he exchanges his clip-clop cycling shoes for a pair of sandals, hangs his fluorescent jacket on a peg, and explains to me the heart monitor that – if he keeps it above a certain daily level – saves him £250 a year on hi
  
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• Going solo: the chefs who work on their own

  20-01-2019 12:30
  We’re used to seeing bustling restaurant kitchens – but what’s it like to be the only one behind the pass? Four chefs tell of the ups and downs of doing all the cooking by themselvesAnna Tobias at P Franco, London Continue reading...
  
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• Beyond the scotch bonnet: the rise of Caribbean food in the UK

  20-01-2019 12:30
  A young generation of British-Caribbean chefs are reclaiming their culinary heritage and bringing it to a new audienceThe plantain at the Nyamming “explorative dining” experience, held in the belly of TT Liquor in Shoreditch in London, has a lightly fried crust, a starchy bite and is finished with a smear of corn custard and the hot tang of scotch-bonnet chilli jam. It is, as with everything on the four-course menu, evocative of more than just good cooking. Nyamming, which takes its
  
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• Benjamin Zephaniah’s vegan taste test

  20-01-2019 12:00
  Dairy-free butters, cheeses, yogurts and more, tested by the writer and poet who has been vegan since his teensMarks & Spencer Oat Drink
  1l, £1.55, marksandspencer.com
  A slightly creamy colour. There’s very little smell. My fear always with these types of milks is that they’re bland and this is not. I have a very sweet tooth and this is just right. There’s enough oat in there to keep me happy.★★★★ Continue reading...
  
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• Milan art tour: fresco heaven, without the crowds

  20-01-2019 08:00
  Resist the urge to splurge in the city’s chic shops and instead lose yourself in its transcendental artThink of Milan and you think of fashion. The first time I spent more than a few hours in the city, I roamed the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II – Italy’s oldest shopping arcade, built in the 1860s and still home to the original Prada store, which was opened by the designer’s grandfather Mario in 1913 – wishing that I was rich (or at least, not quite so broke). What o
  
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• Nigel Slater’s winter soup recipes

  20-01-2019 07:00
  Kale with beans and sprout tops with stilton: how to use up leftover veg in a hearty soupThere is a white china bowl in the fridge, its contents hidden under a plate. With luck it will be buried treasure: the remains of a casserole; steamed potatoes and greens ready for bubble and squeak; a squirrelled-away apple crumble. It is a sad day when the contents turn out to be some of yesterday’s pasta.With luck, my dear old bowl will be full of soup whose character will have mellowed for having
  
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• My rich and grumpy dad said my Christmas gifts were awful | Dear Mariella

  20-01-2019 07:00
  Mariella Frostrup tells a man caught up in festive family tensions to ditch the present-giving charadeThe dilemma My father complained to my wife that the Christmas presents I bought for him and his partner weren’t good enough. He is 66. I bought them some artisan chocolate, which he described as “broken chocolate” because it came wrapped in a clear plastic bag (it was from a small local business that hand-wraps items), and a handmade candle that was called “crappy”
  
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