This hearty dish is the perfect prelude to a mellow afternoon of kayaking on the bottle-green lake.

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School dinners will never be the same again with much-lauded Austrian chef Siegfried Danler-Heinemann overseeing the menu at new restaurant Pauly Saal, where Venetian chandeliers and bottle-green banquettes add a touch of 1920s decadence to the former gymnasium.

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Alternative Organic Wine commissioned a super-green wine bottle from The Creative Method, an Australian design firm.

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Virtually every student was clutching a green bottle of beer - "possibly the best lager in the world" as the advert says - and were singing an anthem called "Beer is god".

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For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.

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For yet another post-election battle-of-the-brands diversion, may I direct your attention to Heineken, which has changed the shape of its green bottle in the United States hoping the slimmer, sexier look will help this one-time leading beer import regain its leading position after years of market share losses.

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And although I have come here in search of the red plenty of the soil and its produce, I realise that the journey has led me also to the green that Juan talked about: the herbs inside this bottle have given the liquid the exact mossy-yellow colour of the pine forests and vineyards that surround us.

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