Journal

Clare Smyth, world’s best female chef: ‘I’m not going to stand and shout at someone. It’s just not nice’

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She was once told by Gordon Ramsay she wouldn’t last a week in his kitchen. Now, the chef patron of Core in London has been named best female chef at the food industry’s ‘Oscars’. But why is the business still dominated by men?

Joël Robuchon obituary

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French chef whose creative genius and drive for perfection brought him 32 Michelin stars

How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%

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In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatious luxury magazine.

By Andy Beckett

Hubert de Givenchy obituary

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Couturier to Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy