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Beijing crushes it in the grassroots craft beer scene, far surpassing its other first-tier city counterparts that are only recently starting to catch up. Yet, when it comes to craft cocktails, many were once forced to choose between vibe and value, flavor and fad or complexity and complexion, always sacrificing one for the other.  Yet, in the past few years, to the shock of die-hard Shanghai bar scene fans, the Beijing craft cocktail culture is sneakily stepping up its game, with a handful of mixologists leading the pack.  Image by Sophie Steiner/That's The hutong bars, Sanlitun bars and u...

The list of rights events grows as March without London Book Fair approaches. And an online event stakes out a full day for Regency romance for Georgette Heyer fans. Some of the more than 50 Georgette Heyer books offered by Penguin Random House UK. Image: PRH Georgette Heyer The Business Online: A ‘Digital Licensing Fair’ Our article from Friday’s Rights Edition (February 19) on digital efforts to handle a spring without London’s or Bologna’s traditional trade shows has prompted notices of more events. The main center for much of this at the moment, not illogically, is the UK where ...

My new best lockdown pal is Alison Roman the carefree cook from Los Angeles, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN (pictured) My new lockdown friend is an American chef and social-media star called Alison Roman. If our sultry, curvaceous Nigella is the Elizabeth Taylor of the culinary scene, Los Angeles-born Alison, 35, is the Taylor Swift. With her jaunty ponytail, red lipstick, and 'who cares?' self-deprecating shrugs, she is despised by large numbers of foodies for being too 'girl next door' and too pedestrian in her cooking. I, though, can't get enough of her. I love the way she has a tiny kitchen (i...

The Black Moth was written by a teenaged Heyer as entertainment for her invalid brother. Set in England in the middle of the eighteenth century, the novel introduces many of the themes and characters Heyer continued to explore through her writing career. The central character is in fact the villain, Hugh Tracy Clare Belmanoir, Duke of Andover, referred to as the black moth. The story follows the Duke's obsessive love for the young heroine, his attempts to win her, and his eventual defeat by the swashbucklingly stereotypical hero. Despite the slightly gothic drama of this story arc - which in...