Ship shape: Normandie, the biggest French restaurant of all
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As a symbol of that way of life, no space on any other ship could compare with Normandie’s grand restaurant
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As a symbol of that way of life, no space on any other ship could compare with Normandie’s grand restaurant
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What Bacon’s Castle looks like inside and out has about it the undeniable strangeness of the past
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Here the ancient actually beats out the modern
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All the sadness of lost youth hovers over Normandy
We live in times generally unfriendly to ritual, religious or civic. For 50 years at least, churches have stripped away once-glorious liturgical rituals in order, they say, to render themselves more accessible, even as pews have emptied. On the civic side, great art museums – some would say the cathedrals of our secular age –
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Cold grates on cold nights are grim. Warm bright ones lift the spirits, whatever tidings the day may have brought
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A celebration dinner demands competence rather than brilliance in the kitchen, and, of far greater value, the benison of guests of the right sort
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I do not know if there was corn in Eden but would like to think so
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These days, we are long into the age of commercial breadbaking and far-removed from the sight of a field of waving wheat
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Revisiting the de facto Dutch capital blurs time and space
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Alone or in company, a good swizzle stick encourages deliberateness
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Cooking is craft, not art, and food porn disorders our senses
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The Nashville restaurant has been in operation without interruption and under the same family ownership for eighty-nine years
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It has been said that Kentucky culture distils down to thoroughbred horses, beautiful women and bourbon whiskey
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He wrote about good living, which he strove determinedly — often flamboyantly — to practice
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We’ve been lost at sea ever since
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Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
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Our priority is therapeutic: to be comfortable and feel welcome
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History takes you out of yourself at Kill Devil Hills and Cape Hatteras
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Mosley’s hails from a past age but prospers fine in this one