Never voted yourself a massive increase in your compensation package? Well there you are then. well, the television companies, I suppose, but there they are, as is the slinky bint in her bondage boots and riot skirt who wiggles alongside you and licks her lips before sliding her hand down your strides in full view [...]

He is now working with the fibreglass factory in Italy that builds Ferrarri bodies to make moulded tables. The most recent of his chairs, an aluminium design, used the skills of the aircraft engineering industry to devise computer-generated tooling. Those who remember Arad’s most wilful past pieces, such as a massive 1988 armchair made of [...]

The printed portraits of women in his life, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot and his second wife, Jacqueline, all go a little way towards caricature. They also remind one of puppetry, and we know that the manufacture of puppets was one of Picasso’s artisanal skills.The BM’s exhibition is in 10 sections, a helpful framework that makes [...]

Soon Mr Heaton will come in with the team and take him (or her) away, but if they come now it will be too late, and if they never come it will still be too soon. It was an instinct, something ageless and reptilian and we knew in our bones it was true.But there’s nothing [...]

An entire library of text and pictures on a single chip could yet become a reality.Now, just as the electron celebrates its birthday as the first fundamental particle to have been found, research in Germany is suggesting that it may not be fundamental after all. HERA, an underground atom smasher near Hamburg, has been colliding [...]

Using his 15th-century hand-press, Caxton could easily turn out a passable version of the latest John Grisham or Danielle Steel. The manuscript book – written material stored on separate leaves (or folios), bound sequentially, that can be opened randomly using fingers and opposable thumb – had huge advantages over the ancient scroll
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Toast the bread, spread with the remaining butter and top with the cheese mixture. Arrange some sliced tomatoes on top if you wish and cook under a pre-heated grill for about three minutes.ANNABEL KARMEL’S QUICK CHILDREN’S MEALSIndependent on Sunday readers can order Annabel Karmel’s new book, Quick Children’s Meals, published in hardback by Ebury Press, [...]

It’s a good, solid, atheistic message, delivered in language of great poetry, clarity and beauty.You can only admire Crace for tackling such a tricky subject. Crace paints them with immense compassion, but perhaps they’re a little too good, a little too victimised, to be of startling interest.The novel’s message is a convincing one: we manufacture [...]

In a bowl mix together all ingredients except potatoes.Arrange potatoes around the edge of a dish, and heap the salad into the middle.CARROT AND ORANGE SALADLa Mamounia chef Boujimaa Mars adds orange flower water for extra aroma.Serves 4 to 6500g/1lb 2oz carrots2 orangesjuice of 12 a lemon1 teaspoon cinnamon1 tablespoon sugarPeel the carrots and grate [...]

One of the world’s great chefs, Paul Bocuse, counts Moroccan cuisine as one of the three best in the world. In this two-part series, we look at Morocco and Turkey, two Mediterranean countries where salad-poking is not a drudge but an art, where it’s at the very roots of food culture. Terry Prachett is the [...]