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...peak of skating season, the chilly capitals of Europe (and some warmer metropolises beyond the Continent, too) compete to serve up the most spectacular skating for locals and tourists alike. So sharpen your blades and check out one of these fantastic places to practice your figure eights. Somerset House, London Daylight skating is delightful in the 18th century courtyard of Somerset House, a onetime royal palace that's now home to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Gilbert Collection and Hermitage Rooms. It's even more spectacular by night, when bright lights and flaming torches illuminate the building's neoclassical facade...
...where five power plants burn thousands of tons of coal every year, the effects on surrounding communities are significant. A 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health Professors Jack Spengler and Jonathan Levy concluded that two local coal-fired power plants, one in Salem and one in Somerset, led directly to a combined 1,710 emergency room visits, 43,300 asthma attacks, and 298,000 daily incidents of upper respiratory symptoms per year...
...Smoking gives the humble British eel a sophisticated flavor. Locally caught smoked eel is available from Brown and Forrest of Curry Rivel, Somerset, who will smoke anything?trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich?and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk...
...chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without subtitles ("Gets in the way of the picture," the master...
...with your Xmas pudding. Peppermint candy slab Kendal Mint Cake will keep you going on hiking expeditions in the Lake District or the Himalayas. Delivery worldwide. www.edirectory.co.uk Smoking gives the humble British eel a sophisticated flavor. Locally caught smoked eel is available from Brown and Forrest of Curry Rivel, Somerset, who will smoke anything - trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich - and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk Cottage Delight of Staffordshire will send home-made date-and-walnut cake, flapjacks, ginger biscuits, vanilla fudge, mango chutney, apple sauce, thick-cut marmalade and piccalilli (it's a mustard pickle) worldwide...