17 May 2021 ⢠10:30pm
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From London to Mexico City, we ask culinary icons across the globe to share their best-kept cookery secrets
With more time on our hands over the last year, many of us have taken the opportunity to experiment in the kitchen. In fact, a recent survey of 2,000 adults found that more than half of us are using new ingredients more when we cook at home.Â
Though we might not be able to emulate them completely, the chefs we admire can inspire us to be bolder and braver in our own kitchens. Here, five of the worldâs best chefs from restaurants participating in American Expressâ Global Dining Collection share their tips, kitchen hacks and the lessons theyâve learned that lead to greatness on the plate.
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High above Los Angeles on seven acres overgrown with citrus, wild herbs, and flowers, a fantastical estate produces soaps, candles, jams, and tinctures to delight the body and feed the soul. Hugh Garvey – May 17, 2021
The gardener and the herbalist pack fresh masa around the seal of a vintage copper alembic still on the porch of the goatherdâs cabin. Weâre at Flamingo Estate, high up in the hills of Eagle Rock on the east side of L.A., and, believe it or not, this is the first step to making a cocktail. The masa will keep the steam from escaping and the distillate pure. The still is loaded with the resiny leaves of black sage, a variation of common sage that is intensely peppery and lemony and earthy. As the steam passes through the aromatic thatch of leaves it will take with it the concentrated essence of the herb, amplifying its power in oil that will trickle through the serpentine copper coil and into a jar, drip by drip. Later to
TALK OF THE TOWN: By the looks of the inside of George Osborne's rented £1,200-a-week West London bachelor pad, our former Chancellor may need to get a baby gate ready.
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In this development roundup, Property Investor Today explores the impressive sales success of the Regent’s Crescent scheme in West London, a potential hotel to residential opportunity in Cambridgeshire and a development loan to help breathe new life into a Liverpool landmark that had been threatened with demolition.
Marylebone scheme witnesses very strong sales
Regent’s Crescent – a scheme in Marylebone recently quoted by Savills as being one of their strongest-performing in Prime Central London (PCL) - has announced that over the past 12 months it has sold over £140 million worth of residences.
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Off the back of this success, the scheme is now releasing to market this month a new selection of apartments, including a five-bed penthouse with a large terrace marketed at a whopping £15.45 million – putting it at the very super-prime end of the market.
TALK OF THE TOWN: By the looks of the inside of George Osborne s rented £1,200-a-week West London bachelor pad, our former Chancellor may need to get a baby gate ready.