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Man About Town: Lobster is everywhere and these crustaceans couldn't get any cooler
Sunday 21 July 2013
This mass-marketisation of one our most highly-prized foods is now in evidence
The girl from Hackney done good: DJ Natalie Coleman crowned winner of MasterChef 2013
Friday 03 May 2013
A part-time house DJ from Hackney has been crowned this year’s MasterChef champion after preparing a knockout menu for the final challenge.
Being modern: No-choice restaurants
Sunday 28 April 2013
When you are standing in the supermarket aisle confronted by 678 kinds of breakfast cereal, you could be forgiven for bemoaning the notion of free will. Stick a diner in front of a menu with just one or two things on it, however, and listen to them complain about rights being infringed.
Pick & mix: The joy of great meals sprung from the garden
Sunday 28 April 2013
From viola flowers in the salad to gnocchi made from potatoes sown by the light of the moon...
Bruce Reynolds, mastermind behind Great Train Robbery, dies aged 81
Thursday 28 February 2013
Violent criminal reoffended after 10-year sentence for his part in a robbery that shook the world in 1963
Pompidou's Dali exhibition inspires artist's favourite hotel
Friday 15 February 2013
Just look out for the lobster
IoS book review: Both Flesh and Not, By David Foster Wallace
Sunday 25 November 2012
Drunken skating and the metaphysics of tennis
Where to go in 2013: Iceland
Sunday 21 October 2012
Why go in 2013? A last chance to beat the crowds
Wines of the week: Jean-Marie Haag Pinot Blanc 2009; Anfora Trio 2010; Otra Vida Winemakers Selection Malbec 2011
Sunday 14 October 2012
Terry Kirby selects the best bottles to buy
The claws are out for lobster's social status
Monday 27 August 2012
It's classic cinematic shorthand. A person eating lobster in a film is usually doing so for one reason: to communicate, at a stroke, that they are horribly snooty – or just plain loaded. It is a synecdoche for luxury living. Or at least it was.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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