How to rain proof your barbecue: Planning a barbecue but worried about the weather? Don’t be put off: follow these tips for great grilling come rain or shine. Plus: recipes you can cook in the oven or over coals. Picking up the baton as the world’s best chef: There’s a persistent clicking sound inside the kitchen of the Hôtel de Ville. It takes a while to locate it and then, I … [Read more...]

The importance of distraction by Andoni Luis Adoriz: I’ve always been easily distracted. When something doesn’t motivate me, or bores me, I drift away; my mind escapes and ends up somewhere else. At school, I was one of those students who barely passed. I did poorly even in subjects that are impossible to fail, such as gymnastics, and in religion, which even atheists manage to … [Read more...]