Guests: FRANS de WAAL Author, The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist, (Basic Books, 2001) C.

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Readers are introduced to dishes such as A Pie of Carrots and Other Roots, Luxury Bread and Brioche, and Fried Artichokes with Bacon and Cream, as well as pivotal epicurean characters like Taillevent (a 14th-century cook to the court of France), Olivier de La Marche (the Duke of Burgundy's master of ceremonies) and Maestro Martino di Como (cook to the papal court).

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These were joined, to sorry effect, on several bills by "Bal de Couture, " a recent creation by company ballet-master-in-chief Peter Martins, which, with its gaudy Valentino costume designs, began life last spring as desperate gala fare and which continues now as program filler.

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That is certainly how the opposition have tried to portray him: as the de facto deputy prime minister or Julia Gillard's puppet-master.

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If Lions are going to cause a shock at ABSA Park then pupil Roberts and master O'Driscoll are major factors opposite the impressive Springboks centre pairing of Jean de Villiers and Adi Jacobs.

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Best Supporting Actor nominees are: Adam Arkin for Argo, Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook, Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln, Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master, and Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained.

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