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There’s much more to them than nostalgia, writes Maria Fitzpatrick.

Bee Wilson on the pleasures of cabbage.

A meal for six in an hour for less than 35. By Annie Nichols.

When it’s good, Giaconda’s very, very good, says Zoe Williams. And when it’s bad well, let’s not go there

Nothing beats the blues better than an old-fashioned steamed pudding, and this week’s recipe from Delia Smith has the added bonus of a rich but simply made sauce.

Tessa Boase on a smart idea for getting seafood into schools.

Adrian Tierney-Jones visits The Bricklayer’s Arms, Putney, London SW15.

The shabby-chic decor evokes the subcontinent - less Empress of India than hippy trail, finds Jasper Gerard.

It’s time diners knew what chefs get up to in pursuit of sensation, writes Rose Prince.

Jonathan Ray in priase of port: pass it on from starboard too. Plus a special Telegraph reader offer on port, below.

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One world record smashed, one leg victory in the bag, and all achieved with
one man down, Brazilian Olympic inshore sailing wizard Torben Grael brought
Sweden’s Ericsson team’s offshore contender to an impressive win here
yesterday at the end of leg one of the Volvo round the world race from
Alicante.

By anyone’s judgement, Arsenal’s campaign for the 2008/9 Barclays Premier
League title looks in serious trouble.

Writing off a member of the so-called elite top four on the first weekend of
November might seem either wishful thinking (should one be a Tottenham
supporter, as in this case) or downright churlish. Yet the case for the
prosecution demanding Arsenal’s removal from the list of likely champions is
both extensive and merited.

His message came from the Orient, which ought to have meant it was shrouded in
mystery.

But in truth, Stirling Mortlock’s words could not have been clearer and more
precise for an expectant Irish audience.

England did not so much lose $20 million last night as hand it gift-wrapped to the Stanford Superstars on a golden platter. In an embarrassing display which demonstrated either that the money on offer – $1m a man – mattered too much or did not matter enough, they were humiliated.

Bottom against top was as one-sided as might have been expected for 70 minutes
in sodden north London yesterday evening, but Liverpool somehow managed to
turn victory into defeat and in doing so, throw away the Premier League
leadership. Chasing a sixth successive win, they led almost from the start
through Dirk Kuyt, only to concede an unlucky own goal by Jamie Carragher
with 20 minutes to play and then suffer a first defeat since March when
Roman Pavlyuchenko scored in added time.

Arsenal’s week went from bad to worse yesterday when they meekly succumbed to Stoke City here, blowing a substantial hole in their championship aspirations. By comparison to this, the late collapse against Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday was a night gilded with glory.

It must be hoped Triggs is in the mood for a good walk this morning. Roy Keane is in the habit of taking his dog for a hike when he has matters to brood on, and after this thrashing there is plenty for the Sunderland manager to contemplate.

It is not just the cracks they have provided in the Premier League hegemony which have made Hull such a welcome breath of east coast air this season. It is the sheer energy that the Yorkshire charabanc can provide on days like this. “We are ‘ull, we are ‘ull” their fans yelled for most of yesterday afternoon and it is a message their players ensured Manchester United will not be forgetting in hurry.

In a week when Sir Alex Ferguson raved about Dimitar Berbatov’s contribution to Manchester United, consider-ably harsher words were being said about him at his former club Tottenham. The Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, has revealed the moody Bulgarian refused to play in games against Sunderland and Chelsea, in which the team dropped five points during their worst-ever start to a season, culminating in Juande Ramos being sacked last weekend. Talking about Berbatov agitating for a move to United over the course of more than a year, Levy said: “We had a player that had refused to play two Premier League games for us, was having a detrimental impact on the dressing room and we’d known for a year that this player wanted out of this club.” Levy added: “I don’t think he treated the club with the respect we deserved. We put him on the map. He signed a long-term contract with this club and I think he should have stayed.” Indeed, he would have done had Ramos insisted, but the manager, having used him only briefly as a substitute at Middlesbrough on the first day of the season, decided to cut his losses. It should all add further spice to United’s visit to White Hart Lane on 13 December.

Manchester United will attempt to prevent Cristiano Ronaldo buying himself out of his current contract and leaving for Real Madrid by offering him an extension to it next summer. By the end of the season he will have served three years of his existing five-year deal, and at that point any player aged under 28 is allowed to break his contract by paying his club a sum equal to the wages on the remaining period. Estimating his salary at £120,000 per week, that would mean a fee of £12.48 million, well within Ronaldo’s capabilities as well as Real Madrid’s.

For one reason and another, the Hawthorns is becoming associated with stirring Premier League afternoons. In a game in which it was going to take something special to divert attention away from the referee Mike Jones, West Bromwich Albion and Blackburn Rovers achieved that feat.

Third stand setback for Falkirk
Plans to construct a new South Stand at the Falkirk Stadium are delayed.

James Anderson has been left out of the England team for Saturday’s $20 million showdown with the Stanford Superstars.

Harry Redknapp’s next challenge with Tottenham sees unbeaten leaders Liverpool arrive at White Hart Lane.

Cristiano Ronaldo insists he would never ‘dare’ to question any decisions made by Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

David Nalbandian ended Andy Murray’s 14-match winning streak in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters.

Tim Sherwood has confirmed to Sky Sports News that he will be joining Tottenham’s coaching team.

Felipe Massa edged Lewis Hamilton in the opening practice session ahead of Sunday’s decisive Brazilian Grand Prix.

The second round of the Volvo Masters was abandoned on Friday after heavy rain washed out play at Valderrama.

Sir Alex Ferguson insists he will not become embroiled in a war of words with Ramon Calderon.

Seve Ballesteros is continuing to “progress favourably” following brain surgery but will remain in intensive care.

World number two Roger Federer has pulled out of the Paris Masters due to a back problem.

Britain’s transoceanic hopes under threat
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Just yards away from the optimistic departure point of the Pilgrim Fathers and
under the vantage point of one of their greatest maritime forefathers, Sir
Francis Drake, Britain’s current squadron of transoceanic maritime heroes is
in trouble.
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Then there”s the Prestige Factor. Its very stylish these days for medium and large sized law firms to prattle on and on about our China Office - and what”s more, a China office allows for the issuance of impressive-looking bilingual business cards. Its become such a potent status symbol that many firms (I strongly suspect) are holding on to money-losing offices in China just so they can keep Beijing on the list of cities where their firm has offices. Medium sized law firms in particular like to set up China offices to prove to their clients their status as Big Time International Players sort of like the teenager who wont shave off his peach fuzz because it proves Im a man.

His restaurants have gone bust but it’s business as usual for chef Tom Aikens. Not so for his trail of unpaid suppliers. Neil Tweedie reports.

We may be tightening our belts financially, but there’s no reason to go without. With the reissue of her book Frugal Food, first published in the 1970s when Britain had its last harsh lesson in home economics, Delia Smith has the recipes that have stood the test of time.

Old-fashioned honeycomb mould

Sausages braised in cider

China”s Trademark Office maintains a centralized database of all registered and applied-for trademarks. Trademark applications that pass a preliminary screening are published by the Trademark Office and subject to a three month period for objection. If there are no objections within this three month period, or if the Chinese Trademark Office rejects the objections as frivolous, the trademark is registered. If the Chinese Trademark Office supports an objection, it will deny the application. Denied applications may be appealed to the State Administration of Industry and Commerce Trademark Review & Approval Board and then to the People”s Court. Based on our experience, objections to trademarks are rare.

Liverpool brought Chelsea’s remarkable unbeaten run at Stamford Bridge to a close with a 1-0 win.

Follow all today’s matches at home and abroad with the skysports.com Score Centre as Liverpool end Chelsea’s unbeaten home record.

Tottenham have confirmed that Harry Redknapp has agreed to become their new manager.

Sergio Garcia cruised to his first European Tour title since 2005 at the Castello Masters, claiming victory by three shots.

Portsmouth chairman Peter Storrie has revealed he did all he could to keep Harry Redknapp at the club.

Harry Redknapp is looking forward to taking charge at Spurs after leaving Portsmouth for a fresh challenge.

Cristiano Ronaldo has hinted that he expects to still be a Manchester United player next season.

Launch the skysports.com scorecentre for the latest from today’s action in the EDF Energy Cup.

Paceman Steve Harmison will miss England’s Stanford Super Series match with Middlesex on Sunday evening due to illness.

Australia got their defence of the World Cup off to an impressive start with a 30-6 victory over New Zealand in Sydney.

Daniel Levy has admitted that Tottenham need a ‘fighter’ after replacing Juande Ramos with Harry Redknapp.

Spam can be a huge problem if you have had your email address for any length of time. No matter how well you protect your email address by not giving it out to anyone you don”t know, you”re still going to get spam. You can, however, minimize the time you spend dealing with spam by adjusting the options in your ISP or web mail preferences section. For most web email addresses, like Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail, you can adjust or train the spam filters so that spam rarely makes it to your main inbox but instead ends up in your Bulk Mail or Junk Mail folder. For AOL users, they have a similar Spam Mail folder and email options which you can adjust to your liking. For stand alone email programs using POP email boxes, any good email program will have spam and junk mail filters as well as allow you to set rules for which mail is deleted, flagged or sent in to the Junk Mail folder according to preferences you set. If you still have a problem, you may consider a third party program like MailWasher at mailwasher.net or SingleFin from singlefin.net. Both programs are free and should help solve or minimize your spam problem.

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will attend a summit in the capital Harare next week - seen as the last chance to salvage the country’s powersharing agreement.

Spanish police are hunting the killer of a British man who was found bludgeoned to death in his Barcelona apartment.

A hunt is on in one of Italy’s most impoverished cities for the winner of the world’s largest ever lottery jackpot.

Israel appears to be heading for early elections after a key coalition partner refused to join the government of prime ministerdesignate Tzipi Livni.

Furthermore, the rural masses are not interested in freedom of speech. They are only interested, to the best of my understanding, in what they can get here and now, and this comes in the form of superficial benefits. Therefore, what should be key in Thailand should be educating the millions of people who have the power to vote in what that vote actually means.

Germany must compensate the families of Italians who were massacred by Nazi troops in Tuscany during the Second World War Italy’s highest appeal court has ruled.

Nevada is becoming one of the most bitterly contested swing states as Obama and McCain battle for votes.

The drivethrough America’s greatest gift to convenience culture has even been extended to the democratic process.

American supporters of Amanda Knox the woman accused of killing Briton Meredith Kercher want the case moved to the US.

The US military have launched a competition to find a design for a flying submarine a week before the release of the latest Bond film.

Princes William and Harry have been struck with a stomach bug four days into their South African charity motorbike rally.

An Egyptian court has sentenced a man to three years’ hard labour for openly groping a woman on a Cairo street in a rare crackdown on widespread public harassment of women.

A Chinese city has confiscated the passports of Communist Party officials after a bureaucrat appeared to have defected after failing to return from a trip to Paris.

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