Douglas Blyde
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Nothing Missing: Charles Davies, founder of Freed From (opens the original)
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At the pioneering trade tasting he hosted at The Belvedere in Holland Park, the producers were conspicuous by their absence. Charles Davies had invited the trade to taste drinks from 42 of them, then deliberately kept every founder away from the tables. The omission was not hostility. It was control. Davies wanted sommeliers, restaurateurs, bartenders and hoteliers to encounter each liquid without somebody hovering behind it, selling a dream or awaiting praise. Downstairs were wine alternatives
Nothing Missing: Charles Davies, founder of Freed From - AOL (opens the original)
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At the pioneering trade tasting he hosted at The Belvedere in Holland Park, the producers were conspicuous by their absence. Charles Davies had invited the trade to taste drinks from 42 of them, then deliberately kept every founder away from the tables. The omission was not hostility. It was control. Davies wanted sommeliers, restaurateurs, bartenders and hoteliers to encounter each liquid without somebody hovering behind it, selling a dream or awaiting praise. Downstairs were wine alternatives
Bodrum: Ancient Stones, Modern Appetites (opens the original)
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Between visits to The Bodrum EDITION, Susona Bodrum, LXR Hotels & Resorts, and METT, Douglas Blyde dines at Ruins and Maçakızı and discovers a peninsula of ancient stone, ambitious cooking, old money and modern excess. ‘When you reach the top of the hill, you will see Bodrum. Don’t assume that you will leave as you came,’ wrote Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, exiled here a century ago after a controversial article about condemned military deserters. As Halikarnas Balıkçısı, the Fisherman of Halicarnassu
Bodrum: Ancient Stones, Modern Appetites - AOL (opens the original)
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‘When you reach the top of the hill, you will see Bodrum. Don’t assume that you will leave as you came,’ wrote Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, exiled here a century ago after a controversial article about condemned military deserters. As Halikarnas Balıkçısı, the Fisherman of Halicarnassus, he turned punishment into a lifelong attachment to the Aegean and helped inspire the Blue Voyage. The advice still works. Keep moving, and do not mistake the peninsula for a single town. Bodrum is a geography of comp
Copenhagenâs Next Course (opens the original)
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Fifteen years after Noma taught the world to eat twigs, four Copenhagen nights take in Koanâs case for a third star, Radioâs August vegetables, PÃREâs Blue Cheese Martini and Tivoliâs hand-braked rollercoaster. On our first morning, Copenhagen offered petrichor, pastries and perfect coffee as bicycles ticked past. Minutes later we had passed a palace and watched pedestrians await green lights despite empty roads. The streets looked as if litter required planning permission, though 14 of
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