Mackerel recipes: Our resident chef Mark Hix is overjoyed it’s mackerel season so he’s come up with a recipe to help you make the most of your catch | City A.M. July 25, 2018 The mackerel have finally arrived in Lyme Bay. They’re very late, maybe having been put off by the orca whale spotted in the bay a couple of weeks back or the dolphins that have been close into the shore. Until we can figure out the language of fish, we’ll never know the reasons for their [...]
Luxury alpine chalet Tivoli Lodge offers not only skiing, but the chance to rub shoulders with the global elite of Davos January 26, 2018 Even when debating the world’s most pressing issues – starvation, pollution and political repression at the World Economic Forum in Davos – the global elite still expect the luxury to which they’re accustomed. As the world's movers and shakers descended on Davos for the annual jamboree, City A.M. grabbed the chance to sample that very [...]
Our resident chef Mark Hix on why you should ditch bland supermarket salad for something red instead February 21, 2017 A lot of salad farmers grow delicious red, Italian winter leaves at this time of year. While you are probably familiar with the round and quite common radicchio, there are lots of varieties to explore, like trevisso, tardivo, trevisiano and, of course, red chicory, which all belong to the same family. My salad and vegetable [...]
Editor’s Notes: Lloyd’s has bigger things to worry about than staff nipping out for a drink February 16, 2017 When I started working at a Westminster PR firm eight years ago, I had to learn how to drink at lunch. It wasn’t exactly a hardship. We were a small office (just three people when I joined) and every day we would decamp to the Italian next-door and see off a few bottles of red. [...]
Picture perfect: A photography tour of the Caribbean island of St Lucia February 3, 2017 So if my aperture is f/3.5 and my shutter speed is 1/125th of a second, what should my ISO be if I want to properly expose this image?” “Four…hun…dred?” I ventured timidly. “Nooooo,” Kirk said, as we took a pew in a cathedral in Castries. To the casual passerby, he must have sounded like he [...]
City Moves for 28 November 2016 | Who’s switching jobs November 28, 2016 Ashurst International law firm Ashurst has appointed Jan Gooze-Zijl as chief financial and operations officer and he will join the firm in February 2017. Jan joins from multichannel broadcaster UKTV where he is chief financial and operations officer, responsible for all financial decision-making and all technical and operational aspects of the organisation. Prior to UKTV, [...]
City Moves for 4 October 2016 | Who’s switching jobs October 4, 2016 Edison Edison, an investor relations and investment research company, has hired Elliott Berstock to the role of account manager in the investor relations team. Elliott brings to Edison more than 10 years’ capital markets experience in the investment industry, joining from Capital Access Group, where he held the positions of associate director of investor relations and [...]
Our resident chef Mark Hix on that most overlooked of ingredients, olive oil July 19, 2016 How much do you care about oil? I see lots of people with various types in their kitchens but I’m a little dubious about whether they use them for their unique qualities and flavour, or just because they happen to be the first out of the cupboard. Olive oil is a good case in point [...]
Luxury hotels are engaged in a race to the top to treat their wealthy customers to ever more extravagant perks, from designer wardrobes to private jets July 7, 2016 Back in the late 1800s, the Savoy famously became the first hotel in London to run on electricity, a sign of true luxury at the time. It also had lifts, “speaking tubes” so that guests could call for a maid and, later, en suite bathrooms with showers. Over the decades, it has continuously evolved to [...]
Do you work for one of the UK’s 25 most attractive employers? June 21, 2016 It's causing fevered debate in offices. Politicians are clashing over it. The cats of social media are up in arms about it. Yep, LinkedIn's list of the UK's top 25 most sought-after employers is out – and the good news is that City institutions are faring pretty well. The list, based on analysis of the site's 20m members, [...]