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  When a journalist visited the Shuping region of China to report on the long-lived population, he was amazed to find that these centenarians could not care less about living healthily.  Quite the reverse. They almost never ate fruit and[…]

THE PERFECT HOST

Does the perfect host or hostess exist? Everyone who ever has guests considers themselves the perfect host but many have no idea. Recently I was at a party given by a well-known Marbella businessman. He had the genial idea of[…]

NOT TO BE SNIFFED AT

In the same week that Rudy Kurniawan’s collection of wines was put on sale by the US justice department, a new wine fraud has hit Hong Kong. Kurniawan is the greatest wine forger in history, and although he is now[…]