Salty coastal sea plant sees popularity increase after featuring in recipes on Saturday Kitchen and Sunday BrunchUK supermarkets have reported soaring demand for samphire, the salty coastal sea plant also known as sea asparagus, thanks to TV cookery shows.Over the last year, sales of samphire, a healthy accompaniment to fish, have rocketed by 80% at Tesco, thanks to its popularity as an ingredient on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen and Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch. Continue reading… Read More

Source:: The Guardian

You can now set up a regular order for everything from cheese toasties and ice-cream to tea and tampons. But can you give up daily shopping and survive by signing up for deliveries?Do you ever get bored with going to the shops and buying the same thing? Until recently, I thought I did. Maybe that is why subscription boxes are booming – to take away the pain. From dog treats to condoms, you name it, someone has boxed it. There is no need to shop. Just sign up, pay once, and let the world come through your letterbox.Since the launch Read More

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What’s black, white and red all over? The New York apartment of artist Yuko Shimizu. Candice Pires takes a lookWhen Yuko Shimizu moved to New York in 1999 she had no interest in – or money for – interiors. “I rented an apartment in an unhip area of Brooklyn and bought all the used Ikea furniture from the guy moving out,” she says.But when she came to buy her own place eight years ago, viewing more than 100 apartments changed her thinking. “I realised that decorating your home is part of your personality.” Continue reading… Read More

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Often considered a global village, the modern world allows people to navigate from one nation to the other. Whether it’s a holiday vacation or a business travel, one cannot wish away the need to keep in touch with friends, workmates and family members using international roaming data. Often, frequent travelers find it difficult to keep […]

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A new London drinks tour focusing on the gin-vermouth-Campari magic that is the negroni takes in clubs, hotels and speakeasies across the city“I don’t really know what a negroni is,” confessed my companion who I’d roped in to accompanying me on London’s first negroni-themed tour. Our collective hipster point total plummeted. We were sitting in an upstairs room in 68 & Boston, a wine-and-cocktail bar in Soho, which has a gentleman’s club feel with its panelled walls, corniced ceiling and stained-glass windows. “Gin, vermouth, Campari,” I whispered to my friend who had unwittingly stumbled into this baptism of firewater.This was Read More

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