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How To Cook The Perfect Christmas Dinner
There’s one place you’re sure to get hot and steamy this Christmas, and it’s unlikely to be your bedroom – unless food comas and post-feast bloating get you going. Nope, best put your efforts into achieving culinary feats in the kitchen this year, and give your family and friends the best present they could’ve asked … Continue reading How To Cook The Perfect Christmas Dinner
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Cocktail Recipe: Lobster Bloody Mary
Depending on which Parisian bar you’re propping up that day, the story of the Bloody Mary’s origins will differ. Some say that the Hemingway Bar in the Ritz Hotel is responsible for the almost century-old sup, while others argue that Harry’s New York Bar is its true birthplace. Personally, we’d bet on iconic mixman Harry … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Lobster Bloody Mary
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Every Cocktail Technique You Need To Know
There’s a reason people fawn over slick-fingered mixologists and it’s not just because of their product’s effect on your libido. Sure, these tattooed alchemists are purveyors of the finest booze and therefore providers of good times. But more than anything, they’re just so damn cool. They take humble parts and sum them into something so … Continue reading Every Cocktail Technique You Need To Know
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Cocktail Recipe: The Patrón Añejo Manhattan
Tequila: a spirit so vivacious and charismatic, it’s been immortalised in song by hundreds of artists, from 1950s luminaries The Champs to 1990s booze-hounds TerrorVision. But, sadly, when it comes to the cocktail-drinking public, they tend to lean heavily – and predictably – toward one area of tequila sups: the dreaded Margarita. Dreaded not for … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Patrón Añejo Manhattan
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Cocktail Recipe: The Corpse Reviver
We’ve all been there. Hangovers so mighty they could fell a lumberjack. Your head pounds louder than the last night at Fabric, your stomach threatens to unleash a river of kebab meat, your pores weep pure vodka tears. Conventional wisdom tells us that a walk in the fresh air, a boost of electrolytes and a … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Corpse Reviver
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8 Pieces Of Office Kit To Pimp Your Desk
For most of us, work involves sitting behind some kind of desk. And whether you’re working from home in your boxer shorts, or clocking in to a cubicle, nothing kills productivity (or carefully sculpted glutes) quite like sitting for eight hours a day in a stale style rut. So banish those Sunday blues with the … Continue reading 8 Pieces Of Office Kit To Pimp Your Desk
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Cocktail Recipe: Shiso Leaves
Last week, Aqua London’s Nico Peratinos showed us how to “calm our senses”, by imbibing a delightfully naughty little camomile-spliced number, inspired by Aqua’s own Hanging Gardens of Kyoto installation – in partnership with Tanqueray No. TEN and cut flower florists Rebel Rebel. This week, he’s looking to enliven our spirits rather than soothe them, … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Shiso Leaves
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Cocktail Recipe: Calm Your Senses
As autumn hovers on the horizon, with its promise of cool days, endless sheet rain and balding trees, it’s more important than ever to cling somewhat desperately onto the vestiges of summer. Freezing because you refuse to head indoors before 9pm? Fine. Forcing yourself to chow down your daily frozen treat, even as your teeth … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Calm Your Senses
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How To Sound Like A Gin Expert (Even If You’re Not)
Mother’s Ruin. Bunter’s Tea. Kill-Grief. Roll-Me-In-The-Kennel. Even if you’ve never tasted this vibrant spirit, the historical, ever-delightful and always-fruity nicknames for gin should give you an idea of its reputation – a potent, moreish concoction that can fell even the hardiest drinker. Its vigour might account for its early popularity – when getting steamed was … Continue reading How To Sound Like A Gin Expert (Even If You’re Not)
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Cocktail Recipe: The Drambuie Collins
You know you’re onto a good thing when two countries argue vociferously over who gets the credit for a culinary creation. Take, for instance, the humble Tom Collins; a classic cocktail in the truest sense, comprising only gin, lemon and sugar. The UK and the US have been snarking each other silly for decades, each … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Drambuie Collins
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Cocktail Recipe: La Louisiane
Obscurity is the lifeblood of the hipster, ever in search of the newest/weirdest/nichest drink/neighbourhood/band in a bid to cement their authenticity, their oneness with all things underground. Because let’s get this straight: by the time the hoi polloi have heard of something, it’s totally passé. Yeah? Cue your new favourite tipple, the enigmatic La Louisiane, … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: La Louisiane
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How To Sound Like A Craft Beer Expert (Even If You’re Not)
If someone were to ask you what the very best day of the year was, you might say Christmas Day, because you love your family and the spirit of togetherness that goes with the holiday. You might say your partner’s birthday, because spoiling the love of your life is the purest joy you can think … Continue reading How To Sound Like A Craft Beer Expert (Even If You’re Not)
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Cocktail Recipe: The Tennessee Nitro Martini
Because an invigorating thwack of caffeine is no longer enough to expect from a humble cup of Joe, coffee aficionados have started adding nitrogen to their daily cups. Yes, nitrogen. The same family of gas that makes your car both Fast and Furious. Does it have a similar effect on the body? Well, by drinking … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Tennessee Nitro Martini
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Cocktail Recipe: The Flotante
We’re in a rum mood this week. We’ve got a buffoon for a Foreign Secretary, a new PM only her parents could love and, in spite of the swell of public outcry, the country has cashed in a one-way ticket down the swanny. It’s time to head to sunnier pastures, for a well-deserved spot of … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Flotante
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Cocktail Recipe: The Schiedam Spritz
Our continental cousins know how to do drinking right. Their bars are open late and yet vomit doesn’t fill the gutters. You can buy booze in McDonald’s, but it doesn’t come with a supersized serving of aggro. Perhaps it’s because their kids are raised to respect a drink. Or maybe it’s down to knowing precisely … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Schiedam Spritz
Interiors & Homeware
9 Pieces Of Kitchen Kit No Man Should Be Without
Of all the rooms in a man’s home, one sees more action than any other. It’s a room where things get steamy, where we often measure ourselves against other men, and what goes on within its four walls can make or break a relationship. Perhaps it’s little surprise, then, that the kitchen (what did you … Continue reading 9 Pieces Of Kitchen Kit No Man Should Be Without
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9 Pieces To Make Your Bedroom More Stylish
Your bedroom probably doesn’t get as many visitors as the rest of your house. Even if your love life is modelled on Mick Jagger, overnight guests probably stop off in the living room first. But there’s one person who has to see it everyday. And since you spend a third of your life asleep, you … Continue reading 9 Pieces To Make Your Bedroom More Stylish
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Cocktail Recipe: The Sage & Sour
You can’t beat the classics: the Beatles, Sean Connery’s 007, MK1 Ford Escorts. At some point in your life, cutting edge dulls, leading to you cancelling your Tidal subscription, crate-digging for Skip James, and rocking your Chuck Taylor’s. All in the name of authenticity. The allure of the classic hasn’t bypassed the mixologist either: as … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Sage & Sour
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Cocktail Recipe: Mama’s Rhubarb Fizz
Want to start a ruckus? Ask a group of Latin American drinkers who invented the pisco sour. Depending on who you speak to, the cocktail’s origins are equivocal – and hotly contested. Americans will tell you the delightfully sharp little number was invented by one of their own – Victor Morris, a bartender who set … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Mama’s Rhubarb Fizz
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Cocktail Recipe: The Jessica Rabbit
Can a cocktail ever be healthy? Certainly, one can try to steer clear of those sumptuous, mouth-watering concoctions laced with milk and cream that call so seductively from the sluttiest reaches of the cocktail menu, and opt instead for a more chaste, juice-based medley; one can indeed swap the tongue-tickling caloric heft of tonic water … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Jessica Rabbit
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Cocktail Recipe: Spanish Affair
Twenty years ago, the Negroni would have nestled inconspicuously in the darker reaches of an Italian restaurant’s cocktail menu – a quiet, unassuming vintage whose simple bedrock of Campari, vermouth and gin struggled to measure up to the peacocking blush of the Cosmopolitan or the barnstorming vivacity and potency of the Long Island Iced Tea. … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Spanish Affair
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Cocktail Recipe: The Rose Garden
We’re nearing the end of May, and for Britain’s horticulturalists, that can mean only one thing: the Chelsea Flower Show has landed. Established in 1862 (then known as The Royal Horticultural Society Great Spring Show), Chelsea has been showcasing the country’s most impressive buds and dazzling garden designs for 152 years. What better way to … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Rose Garden
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How To Sound Like A Whisky Expert (Even If You’re Not)
These days, there are dedicated national holidays for the most ludicrous things (Farmhouse breakfast day anyone? British sandwich week? Be nice to nettles day?), launched by big companies intent on flogging their wares to the British public under the guise of ‘fun’. One such celebration we can totally get on board with, however, is National … Continue reading How To Sound Like A Whisky Expert (Even If You’re Not)
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Cocktail Recipe: The Gentleman’s Agreement
You can’t take five steps in most cities without stumbling across the smell of freshly brewed coffee or latterly roasted beans, their intoxicating bouquet tempting you to get jazzed up on eddying caffeine at every turn. Piccolos, cortados and flat whites jostle for the title of smallest and dullest drink on hipster menus across the … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Gentleman’s Agreement
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Cocktail Recipe: The Zacapa And Leek
In the words of Simon & Garfunkel: “Slow down, you move too fast.” With noses buried in smartphones and our minds occupied with money worries, we’re all so busy being busy that we don’t stop often enough to ponder life over an enlivening potation (chugging pints during a post-work Friday night hooch orgy doesn’t count). … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: The Zacapa And Leek
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Cocktail Recipe: Occam’s Razor
There is no greater bond than that between the world’s most exalted thinkers and their tipple of choice. Would For Whom the Bell Tolls have taken its place among the canon of seminal literature had Ernie not so enthusiastically supped? Would Winston Churchill have won the Nobel Prize in Literature had he fixed himself a … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Occam’s Razor
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Cocktail Recipe: Pineapple Rum Ginger Beer
Spring has officially sprung. That means fields full of leaping lambs, delicate flowers fleeing the shadowy earth and mushrooming underfoot, and an air so fresh and invigorating that one is compelled to fling open bulging cupboards, rifle through overstuffed drawers, and cast off the shackles of winter with a hearty spring clean. Not if you … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Pineapple Rum Ginger Beer
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Cocktail Recipe: Big Billy Coconuts & Freedom Of Peach
Cocktail culture has made great strides, but for some, men sip a Don Draper old fashioned, while girls order a cosmopolitan and natter about Jimmy Choos. Preconceptions not helped by alcohol companies splitting their advertising down strictly gendered lines. Clear spirits such as vodka and gin, with their lower caloric content and vagina-friendly flavours, are … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Big Billy Coconuts & Freedom Of Peach
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Cocktail Recipe: Grumpy Thompson’s Ale
April Fool’s day is only funny if you’re a fabled scholar and few human beings are sufficiently well-informed to challenge your high jinks, or you’re a 12-year-old trying to convince a younger sibling that rabbit droppings are in fact chocolate covered raisins. Barney Toy, bar manager at London’s Alice-in-wonderland inspired Little Bat (from the team … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: Grumpy Thompson’s Ale
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Cocktail Recipe: What’s Up Doc?
To most of us, Easter means come-hither chocolate, and a tonne of it, too. So if I were to bestow upon you an Easter-themed cocktail, you’d most likely anticipate something along the lines of a chocolate infused martini, or an opulent, boozy chocolate milkshake. Then again, Easter also evokes visions of the mighty egg: so … Continue reading Cocktail Recipe: What’s Up Doc?
