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5280′s Food Critic Gained From Creating a Restaurant for Birds
The local birds Scott Mowbray observed over the past 15 months caused him to ruminate on the nature of animal consciousness.Scott Mowbray •
The year of COVID lockdown increased my drinking, my blood pressure, and my weight, and it reminded me that, although I love my home, I need to be far away from it, traveling, for eight or 10 weeks a year. But the routines of the pandemic also gave me clues to the nature of nature, and did so with a force such that no day of snorkeling off Mooréa or hiking in the Hindu Kush ever had done. (Don’t let me exaggerate my taste for global adventure, though: My idea of fun mostly runs to prowling the backstreets of Tokyo for ramen shops.) It is to the local birds I’ve observed over the past 15 months that I owe a philosophical, even spiritual, gain.
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The Bungay branch of Barclays Bank is set to close.
- Credit: Nick Butcher
By the end of the year the East of England is predicted to have lost 264 bank branches in just six years.
Customers are increasingly carrying out their transactions online, with 12 million people opening an account with a digital-only bank in 2019, according to comparison site Finder.
Likewise, consumers are ditching the ATM in favour of their mobiles, and the pandemic will only have sped up this change.
In 2019 just 23pc of payments were made with cash, but with many businesses refusing physical payment for hygiene and social distancing purposes during the pandemic, the figure for 2020 could be far lower.
What to Buy at 4 Front Range International Markets
5280 food critic Scott Mowbray searches local markets for tasty ingredients to enliven his home cooking and yours. Scott Mowbray •
Blessed are the food makers and food sellers in these coronavirus-afflicted times. The shutdowns and restaurant closings of 2020 had me cooking at home every night some weeks, which prompted masked shopping excursions beyond the realms of Costco, King Soopers, and Whole Foods in search of new ingredients. There’s a wonderland of global goodies out there. If you’ve never been to H-Mart, the giant, cheery, Pan-Asian supermarket in Aurora (there’s also a location in Westminster), for example, prepare to be gobsmacked by its astounding selection of fresh and frozen treats that cater to our deepest carb cravings. There are buckwheat noodles; puff parathas stuffed with chives; dumplings filled with Chinese spinach, pork, and shrimp; Korean scallion pancakes; and pot stickers galore. Recently, I p