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Travel: Antigua

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:49:06 GMT

THEY say you need patience to fish. And it turns out they’re right. Half an hour into my Antiguan deep-sea fishing trip and I’m considering throwing in the towel. We’re about three miles off the coast of Curtain Bluff, on the south coast of the Caribbean island, dragging five baited lines behind us, and nothing has happening. Not even a nibble.

Tom Kitchin: Rum Baba recipe

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:12:26 GMT

I FELL in love with rum when I first visited the Caribbean. It was the moment when I realised how specialist rum can be and, indeed, how many varieties you can find. Most of the world’s production occurs in the Caribbean or in Latin America.

Chitra Ramaswamy: Going with the slow

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:01:51 GMT

It’s our last holiday before the arrival of baby Ramaswamy, or as he is known in familial shorthand, Boyo. Before the advent of the recession, the dog and my pregnancy, holidays meant a last-minute internet booking, sun cream grainy with sand, hot salted skin and a humbling amount of time spent in one’s socks in airport security queues.

Representing Scotland at Graduate Fashion Week

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:49:30 GMT

W HEN the world’s fashion insiders look for the next big names – the future Christopher Baileys and heads of haute couture houses – they turn their best sides to Graduate Fashion Week. There is, quite simply, no greater showcase of emerging talent.

Celebrating Father’s Day as a gay dad

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:43:56 GMT

IT WAS two years ago, while on business in the United States and visiting, of all places, a YMCA, that Mike Dalziel had his first sexual encounter with a man. Returning home, full of guilt at having been unfaithful for the first time in almost two decades of marriage, Mike decided the moment had come – he would have to tell his wife and children that he was gay.

Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern on music and the Fringe

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:32:36 GMT

IT IS as Lady Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, nouveau riche American incomer and thorn in Maggie Smith’s side, that Elizabeth McGovern is best known and best loved.

Feel the burn: Tackling sports injuries

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:08:44 GMT

FOR being such a healthy bunch, sports people seem to spend an awful lot of time laid up with injury.

Travel: Reykjavik, Iceland

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:07:18 GMT

ALTHOUGH the most sparsely populated country in Europe, with roughly 320,000 citizens to its 103,000km2, Iceland is packed with action.

Travel: Hotel Miramar, Barcelona

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:06:13 GMT

MIRAMAR’S direct translation is ‘good view’ and you most certainly won’t be disappointed in that respect at Hotel Miramar.

Restaurant review: Italian Kitchen, Edinburgh

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:52:51 GMT

IT’S a Wednesday night and we’re looking for somewhere achingly Italian, so thick with the aroma of Tuscany, Umbria and Puglia it will make up for missing out on a slice of la dolce vita for the third year in a row.

Wine: ‘Because folk were entertaining at home, they compensated by spending more on wine’

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:49:12 GMT

WHEN the recession began, sales of quality wines in some supermarkets actually increased.

Chitra Ramaswamy: Two ships passing

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:46:12 GMT

ON A train to London recently, the man sitting next to me was talking constantly on his mobile phone. My first reaction?

Rachel Bilson on new hit medical drama Hart of Dixie

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:45:39 GMT

EVEN wearing a starched white doctor’s coat, it’s easy to see why Rachel Bilson is so often rated near the top of the ‘100 Sexiest Women’ lists.

Tom Kitchin: Roasted bone marrow recipes

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:44:36 GMT

FATHER’S Day has a new meaning for me this year.

Actor Henry Cavill on new film Man of Steel

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:34:57 GMT

IT WAS a pretty significant day in the life of Henry Cavill on 14 July 1012.

Johann Lamont on life, Labour and party leadership

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:33:35 GMT

JOHANN Lamont suggests coffee at the House for an Art Lover, in Bellahouston Park.

Andy Murray: The grass is always greenest

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:29:25 GMT

It is the climax of the clay court season: today the world’s best players are sweating it out at Roland Garros in pursuit of the French Open title.

Travel: The Akamas peninsula, Cyprus

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:29:24 GMT

LIGHTNING bolts light up the night sky over Chrysochou Bay just before an enormous boom cracks what feels like right above our heads.

Tom Kitchin: Stuffed, boned and rolled chicken

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:29:23 GMT

FOR those who follow this column, you will have hopefully found last week’s guide to filleting fish inspiring. A chef or a cook who doesn’t understand the produce they are working with will never achieve the same results as they would if they really took the time to work with, understand and appreciate that ingredients nature has given us.

Michael Douglas on life, Liberace and Local Hero

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:29:21 GMT

He’s beaten the critics, beaten cancer, and now he’s getting the reviews of his life playing Liberace. But Michael Douglas still hasn’t forgotten the day he lost out on a role in Bill Forsyth’s classic Local Hero