CLAIRE Smith, global ambassador for super-premium Polish vodka brand Belvedere, co-hosted a Martini masterclass at Duke's Hotel with head barman Alessandro Palazzi. Amid oils of shiny horses and brass-buttoned riders, Smith preceded proc...
Creative Director of Baroncelli lighting design, whose clients include Dubai’s Burj Al-Arab, Sandy Lane in Barbados and Aspinalls, London (for Vertu)‘OUR glass is hand-blown in Murano, Venice, a miracle of a city where everything’s roman...
OUTSIZE ants crawl over crazy paving at the Klinec homestead’s terrace. The vista in their midst – Medana’s vineyards a few miles from Friuli – may matter little aesthetically to the insect society (at least compared to the pleasure of e...
‘THEY can’t stop working ‘cause you’re here,’ half-jokes Andy Barker, the persuasive American Social Mission Specialist for Ben & Jerry’s. Either side of press and students and NUS student representatives imported from Finland, Germany a...
Photographic safari in lush island geopark (for Vertu) ‘ALLOW me to introduce the totally lunatic ecosystem known as the mangrove,’ says husky-voiced Aidi Abdullah, the self-taught, self-confessed ‘tree hugging’ naturalist annexed to Fou...
Lizzie Shell of boutique "Super Rhône" producer, Chêne Bleu, demonstrated the versatility of its output at North African restaurant, Momo, in Piccadilly, London recently (for Harper's)AGAINST a vigorous soundtrack, including Maghrebi son...
Douglas Blyde meets the Paris Ritz’s legendary barman, Colin Field (for Vertu)COLIN Field, ‘best bartender on Earth' according to Forbes magazine, was the debonair raconteur and host of the Hemingway Bar at Paris’s Ritz for 18 years. Ado...
BIOCHEMIST turned pastry chef, Bethany Chellingworth realised her love for cooking when her IVF doctor mother, Kay, gifted her a place on an Acton cookery class. “The tutor, Angela Malik, a former accountant, was the first change-of-life...
Swiss chef harnessing thermal water (for Vertu)BENEATH the barrelled ceiling of an eighteenth century Abbots palace is ‘Äbtestube’, the leading restaurant of eight within spa destination, Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. Supplied by the healthy w...
Peter Lehmann Wines - Learn Why He Is the King of the Barossa and How to Purchase His Wines (For Kevin The Wineman)82 year-old Peter Lehmann and wife, Margaret live in Tanunda where their home overlooks acres of gnarled Shiraz vines. Tak...
