Champagne Laurent-Perrier to Provide Bursary for Edge Hotel School Student Champagne Laurent-Perrier will contribute a cash bursary to help fund an annual educational visit to the champagne region for the Edge Hotel School’s top performing Sommelier, or wine student. The Edge Hotel School, the UK’s first hotel management school based entirely in a fully operational … Read more
Angelina Jolie’s Procop jewels set for exhibition Unprecedented access to Angelina Jolie jewelry line Style of Jolie, Angelina Jolie’s jewelry line made in partnership with co-designer Robert Procop, is set to go on display this summer at The Grand Hotel in Cap Ferrat and Monaco’s Hotel de Paris concurrently between July 15 and August … Read more
Harvard School of Public Health has honored the acclaimed British chef and food activist Jamie Oliver with the 2012 Harvard School of Public Health Healthy Cup Award for his significant achievements working to end the childhood obesity epidemic. Jamie Oliver’s 2010 and 2011 prime time ABC television series, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” increased awareness of … Read more
Designers like Paul Smith, Orla Kiely, Mary Katrantzou, J.W. Anderson, and Matthew Williamson are involved in the Olympic Games (July 27 – August 12) in a creative manner. To keep up to date with all the Olympic fashion events, exhibitions and activities the British fashion industry stars have set up Fashion 2012 (fashion2012.co.uk) – an online … Read more
Saveur magazine, Modernist Cuisine and Los Angeles Magazine are the big winners of the 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards, known as the ‘Oscars’ of US culinary world. Nathan Myhrvold‘s six-volume culinary encyclopedia Modernist Cuisine won the “Cooking From a Professional Point of View” category and was named the “Cookbook of the Year”. Amanda Hesser’s site … Read more
Drinking wiskey at the top of Mount Everest No Ordinary Mountain. No Ordinary Men. No Ordinary Whisky. To salute those who demonstrate true Pioneering Spirit and to support the Walking With The Wounded Everest team, whisky distillery Glenfiddich organizes on 10th May a whisky tasting at the top of Mount Everest. The fundraising event that … Read more