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If you adore cooking up a storm in the kitchen but you are less than impressed with your current cabinetry, oven, or kitchen configuration, it might be time to give your space a facelift. Renovating a kitchen can be costly, but it needn’t be. By following this simple guide, you can create a kitchen that is honed to creative cooking perfection. You can enjoy rustling up a feast on your hob, utilizing your ovens for one-pot meals, and having all the gadgets and gizmos you need at your fingertips. Take a look at how you can make your kitchen fit for gastronomic purpose.

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Scrumptiuous Spring: Lighter Dishes You Will Salivate Over

Joy of joys, springtime is here and we can finally enjoy fresh produce returning to our shops. Nothing beats a ripe apple to go with your morning granola. Hardly anything can touch the delight of fresh peach, cut up into your salad or better yet, vanilla ice cream bowl. There’s something so amazing about spring, that when it comes to food, we naturally decide to eat healthier. The temperatures have risen and that makes us feel a little more bloated when we eat heavier food. The whole family wants to eat a meal together and then, lounge around in the patio or lounge room, to watch the sunset. These are some of the dishes that you will salivate over and race to the kitchen, to make yourself.

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CHOOSING THE BEST SUNGLASSES FOR YOU

For many of us, choosing a pair of sunglasses for the summer is just as simple as popping into your favorite retail store, pharmacy, outlet mall or even gas station (on the way out of town to the beach if you’re lucky) and grabbing the first pair that looks cool. Whether you’re into big lenses, tinted glasses, cat-eye glasses, huge, oversized trendy pairs or something else entirely, you’re going to have plenty to choose from, even in the most out-of-the-way places.

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The Best Places For A Foodie To Live

If you are someone who just loves food, and you are keen to make your love of food a big part of your life, then this might feed in to your decision about where to live. Some parts of the world are just fantastic places for a food-lover to live, more so than many others, and by focusing on some of those and working out a good place to move to, you might be able to make much more of your love of food in general in your life. The question then is which parts of the world are particularly great for a foodie to live in, and what food can you expect to eat while you are there? Let’s take a look at some of the world’s best places to live for food-lovers.

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Singapore

If you go and live in a bungalow in Singapore, you are going to find yourself surrounded by some amazing food that you are going to struggle to get anywhere else in quite the same level of quality or the same amount of it. Whether it’s some of the old classics dishes like a pork rib soup, or a modern street food invention like the Wanton Mee, you can be sure that there are plenty of delicious meals to get into. Singapore also has a fancier quarter in which you can find some of the world’s top restaurants offering a range of cuisines, so no matter what kind of fine dining you like you are bound to find it there.

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The Mediterranean diet

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What is the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet is more than just a diet, it’s a lifestyle based on the ways that people used to live in Southern Italy, Greece and their surrounding countries during the 1960s. The reason why the Mediterranean diet isn’t based on the cuisine of these countries now is that, like many other parts of the world, fast food outlets and convenience stores have changed their previously very healthy food culture bringing with it rising obesity levels and health problems.

That Mediterranean diet of old is still widely considered one of the healthiest ways to eat, combining whole plant foods with lean protein sources, good healthy fats such as olive oil and avocado, with whole grains and legumes. The diet also encourages people to eat slowly and socially rather than to fuel convenience and champions regular exercise and positive mental wellbeing.

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There is nothing like the feeling of moving to a new city. Getting up and knowing you have new places to explore and new people to meet is exciting; it’s starting fresh, and it feels good to do it. If you’re brave enough to give a move a try, then you need to know how to pull on your coat of courage and get out there!

No matter where you move in the world, you should view this as an exciting opportunity. You’ve already hired the Bekins Moving Solution movers, and you’ve got settled into your new house. So, what comes next? Well, let’s take a look at how you can adjust to a new city.

Five tips for starting over

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The Kings Arms Hotel and The Six Restaurant

The Kings Arms Hotel and The Six Restaurant, a 14 bedroom hotel with a restaurant is strategically located within walking distance of the Royal Hampton Court Palace and leafy Bushy Park. The property has been lovingly renovated to highlight the features and the unique proportions expected with a mature property, a Grade 2 listed building dating back to 1709.

Kings Arms Hotel & Six restaurant

On entry, the pink and pale grey tones of the lounge and reception create a relaxed environment for the arrival for guests. Antique marble tables and period seating offer a comfortable and cosy setting, whilst an abundance of greenery brings a unique orangery style to the space, designed to harmonise its surroundings. In The Six Restaurant, pale walls are lined with deep navy banquettes, and in keeping with the period style of the property, the original wooden fireplace has been beautifully restored.

Six restaurant

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From the founders of the award-winning Chai Thali group, 1947 London is a modern Indian restaurant and cocktail bar set in an opulent subterranean space on just off Fitzrovia’s buzzing Charlotte Street (the entrance is on Rathbone Place). At the helm is Chef Krishna Negi who is a protege of Michelin-starred Vineet Bhatia. At 1947 London he has created a menu which pays tribute to recipes that evolved out of the movement of peoples and cultures during the partition in 1947.

The look and feel of 1947 London is glamourous, with sumptuous textures and warm dark colours to set the mood. Most enchanting are the giant-sized hand-crafted roses crafted by paper artist Karen Navalta which decorate the entrance of the restaurant and cocktail bar. Using recycled cardboard, Karen turned these into 1000s of petals, stems and buds, and then painstakingly hand sprayed them in rose-gold, copper and frosted plum to create a striking wall feature.

1947 London

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