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Cut the parsnips into batons coat with a mixture of honey and mustard and roast for 20 minutes

Cut the parsnips into batons, coat with a mixture of honey and mustard and roast for 20 minutes. Strain the marinade from the duck, add half the blackcurrants and boil until reduced by one-third Sieve, and add remaining black-currants. Drain, then blend in food processor with the mustard and fromage...
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Settle said all the good advice in town before it gets worse

Settle, said all the good advice in town, before it gets worse. By now, Katzenberg was of the opinion that $250m was a ball-park figure Day after day, the case went on, with top lawyers involved It turned ugly as Michael and Jeffrey took the stand. But the suit remained, and in November 1997 Disney conceded...
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And I hope that the Tate Gallery’s show ‘Art of Bloomsbury’ demonstrates that

And I hope that the Tate Gallery’s show ‘Art of Bloomsbury’ demonstrates that. I don’t see them as Picasso.SARAH DUNANT: But you see them as pretty good artists who deserve to be in the British cultural history?RS: Yes. I think we come to the great fault line now: because they...
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They’ll root more quickly at that time of year but I’ve found they root at any time of year except

They’ll root more quickly at that time of year, but I’ve found they root at any time of year except in the depths of winter Cut a shoot, or even a section more substantial than that. This year, when I pruned my box spheres in late spring, I took cuttings from 3in branched sections, and they...
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Reject those disgusting bibs they offer you at all-you-can-eat seafood and barbecue-rib

Reject those disgusting bibs they offer you at all-you-can-eat seafood and barbecue-rib theme restaurants, as you will walk out with more dignity if covered in sauce. If they insist (in these litigious days, the restaurateurs may not want to be culpable for dry-cleaning bills), then say you will indeed...
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It has its place in the general scheme of things – it shouldn’t scream ‘Look at me

It has its place in the general scheme of things – it shouldn’t scream ‘Look at me.’”"People like the idea of commissioning a new carpet,” says Adam Munthe, founder of the Asad Company. “It is no longer a case of, ‘Oh, we must find a carpet as background...
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He’s a real charmer all right

He’s a real charmer, all right.”When he arrived in England on Christmas Eve, the war in Kosovo had not yet begun, so Elton, who at that stage spoke scarcely a word of English, was not regarded as a bona fide refugee. He should have been classified as an economic migrant and sent smartly home...
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After all books rarely seem more boring than when they’ve been effusively recommended to us as masterpieces – as works

After all, books rarely seem more boring than when they’ve been effusively recommended to us as “masterpieces” – as works of genius. This is perhaps because greatness in literature seems synonymous with schoolroom tedium and the need to pass exams. There’s something terrifying...
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It is a grotesque distortion of the notion of democracy for one candidate to be able to reach the electorate and the

It is a grotesque distortion of the notion of democracy for one candidate to be able to reach the electorate and the other two be unable to do so on the same basis It comes close to bringing the Labour Party into disrepute. Either way, the party’s spokesman is conceding that at the highest level...
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It’s official Tweed is back It’s all new all trendy all singing and dancing and

It’s official Tweed is back It’s all new, all trendy, all singing and dancing and .. oh, please Tweed has been around since the year dot. Well, the mid-19th century to be more precise, when it became all the rage in Scotland, particularly with the locals of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. The...
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