Jourdan Dunn is a catwalk star – can she become a cover star too?
She is the first British black woman on the Forbes models rich list. Now there are signs her commercial clout is breaking down old barriers
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The science of mixing mind-blowing cocktails
A guide from 1948 still contains the best advice about cocktail-making – but modern mixologists use plenty of 21st-century science, too. Is all that effort worth it?
Nicole Farhi and fashion’s great disappearing acts
Like Calvin Klein, Helmut Lang and Martin Margiela before her, Nicole Farhi – the designer turned sculptor – has proclaimed that she will never return to fashion. For some, though, a return is inevitable
From firewater to fine dining: exports triple for tequila’s poor cousin, mezcal
Aficionados say Mexico’s agave spirit retains a charm and subtlety lost by its mass-produced rival – and has the potential to be as popular as single-malt whisky
Can’t afford to fly in a luxury jet? How empty-legs deals make it possible
After flying their super-rich customers off to exclusive haunts, private charter firms have found a way to earn extra money on the otherwise empty return journeys
Biogas: can a green energy source be environmentally damaging?
Government efforts to protect sustainable agriculture may also cut off growth of the burgeoning British biogas industry