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How to make the perfect chocolate roulade – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect...

How to make the perfect chocolate roulade – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect...

It’s the fudgy crumb, crackly casing and luxuriant cream centre that elevate this French showstopper above the workaday swiss rollI try to embark on these columns with an open mind: to engage the spirit of strict scientific neutrality in pursuit of culinary perfection. Yet, this week, as I rolled roulade after roulade, whipped cream softly spilling on to the counter in front of me, I realised that I was not only striving towards perfection, but attempting to recreate a very specific, decades-old sensory memory. The first mention of chocolate roulade in the British Newspaper Archive comes in...

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Party Dresses: What Jessica Chastain and Uma Thurman Wore Last Week

Party Dresses: What Jessica Chastain and Uma Thurman Wore Last Week

Great outfits from the Met Museum, MoMA and Creative Time galas.

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Book Review: ‘Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides: A Biography’

Book Review: ‘Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides: A Biography’

A new biography examines what made the prolific travel writer and transgender figure so driven, and who was ignored along the way.

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Taraneh Alidoosti, Iranian Actress, Arrested

Taraneh Alidoosti, Iranian Actress, Arrested

The actress, Taraneh Alidoosti, had urged people to speak out after the execution of a man involved in nationwide demonstrations.

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Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98

Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98

His harshly lit studies of life models represented a major departure in American painting and shocked modernist critics.

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How Dapper Dan, Harlem Haberdasher, Spends His Sundays

How Dapper Dan, Harlem Haberdasher, Spends His Sundays

The style icon is a news obsessive, a reader, a salsa dancer and a churchgoer (he skips the sermons, though).

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Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78

Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78

His percussion virtuosity was a key to the band’s many hits of the late 1960s, including the chart-topping “Good Lovin’,” “Groovin’” and “People Got to Be Free.”

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At Bessie Awards, Joy and Diversity, and Gathering in Person

At Bessie Awards, Joy and Diversity, and Gathering in Person

Soledad Barrio and Leslie Cuyjet were among the winners, and Nai-Ni Chen was honored with a lifetime achievement award.

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Nick Cannon reveals ‘biggest guilt’ after birth of 11th child

Nick Cannon reveals ‘biggest guilt’ after birth of 11th child

The rapper is currently expecting his 12th child

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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Has a Subdued Start at the Box Office

Ticket sales totaled $134 million in North America, nearly doubling the opening for the first ‘Avatar.’ But Hollywood was expecting more.

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Netflix let Birdman’s director go as big and self-indulgent as he wanted on Bardo

Photo: SeoJu Park/Netflix Alejandro G. Iñárritu gets masturbatory and maximalist in his semi-autobiographical epic Continue reading…

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The 13 best sci-fi movies since Avatar

Lightstorm/20th Century Fox From riding the Fury Road to breaching the Shimmer and beyond Continue reading…

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New Clue About 'Adam' in Murder Case Of 4 Idaho College Students

A tantalizing new clue has surfaced in the murders of 4 Idaho college students ... two of the victims were seemingly caught on video discussing a person named "Adam" just hours before they were slaughtered. Fox News Digital obtained the eerie…

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Arrest Video Shows Velveteen Dream Berated Cop Over Miranda Rights, 'You F***ed Up!'

Ex-WWE superstar Velveteen Dream exploded on an officer over his Miranda rights during an arrest earlier this year ... hurling f-bombs at the cop and calling him a "rookie" repeatedly -- new police video, obtained by TMZ Sports, shows. The footage…

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Celebrity Scramble -- Guess Who!

Behind this scrambled Christmas tree is a lady about town who takes Xmas lights to a whole other level, and she is committed to outshining her neighbors. Yes, her Christmas character is one for the books, but her gig on HBO's "White Lotus" also got…

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Craft Your Own D.I.Y. Hanukkah Menorah

Creating your own candleholder can be a fun way to teach kids about the holiday — and to spread a bit of festive light.

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Britney Spears' Father, Jamie, Breaks Silence on Conservatorship

Britney Spears' dad, Jamie Spears, is spilling his guts for the first time about the conservatorship and his role in it ... defending the legal apparatus by calling it necessary. Jamie spoke to the Daily Mail, explaining that he feels like he saved…

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The Liver King Lifts Weights In Middle of L.A. Traffic, Still on Steroids

The Liver King isn't going to let his steroids scandal bring him down -- in fact, he's stepping right up ... to TMZ ... to explain that he's still juicing up. 💀 We got Brian Johnson -- the influencer behind the internet personality -- out on…

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Ashley Bickerton, Whose Art Evoked Humor and Wonder, Dies at 63

After achieving early fame, he abandoned the insular art world of New York and fled to Bali, producing work that was lush, provocative and often sharply satirical.

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Megan Thee Stallion's Bodyguard Allegedly Missing Amid Tory Trial

Megan Thee Stallion's bodyguard -- a key figure in the Tory Lanez trial -- has allegedly vanished into thin air ... and cops are said to be on the case. MTS's attorney, Alex Spiro, tells TMZ ... "We recently learned that Justin Edison went missing…

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Adrienne Mancia, Influential Film Curator, Dies at 95

Her choices for exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music gave foreign directors and newcomers valuable exposure in New York.

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'RHOBH' Star Camille Grammer's Mother, Maureen, Dead at 75

Camille Grammer's mother, Maureen Wilson Donatacci, has died ... TMZ has learned. Reps for the 'RHOBH' star tell us Maureen passed away Saturday morning at her New Jersey home while surrounded by family. We're told she succumbed to a long battle…

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Sharon Osbourne Rushed to Hospital After Suffering Medical Emergency on Set

Sharon Osbourne suffered a terrifying medical emergency while shooting a paranormal TV show in California ... TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge tell us it all went down Friday night ... Sharon fell ill on the set of the unnamed…

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Avatar: The Way of Water takes the secret-parentage mystery to the next level with Kiri

Image: 20th Century Studios Let’s talk about Eywa! Continue reading…

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The 5 best thrillers to watch on Netflix this December

Image: Warner Home Video Pulse-pounding films to keep you warm in the depths of winter Continue reading…

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