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A year or so ago I bought some lovely skewers with a pig design on from my favourite cookshop in Paris, E Dehillerin in the Rue Coquillière. I've actually only just started using them but they look great, in a twee sort of way. This recipe involves most bits of the pig but you can really use whatever cuts and offal you fancy. It's also a great way to use rare breed pork from farms where you have to buy a quarter of a beast. Richard Vaughan at Huntsham Farm in Herefordshire does exactly that with his Middle White pork and Longhorn beef.

Practice which took the Young Architect of the Year award in 2007 beats seven others to house dear old Dolly and the swanky EsperanceThe London architects Carmody Groarke have won the design competition for Windermere's new steamboat museum, beating seven others on a shortlist from 114 initial expressions of interest.Their collection of simple but practical buildings was chosen in a 'blind viewing' of anonymous submissions for the centre north of Bowness, which will have a dock for the museum's wonderful collection of dainty craft, a conservation workshop and a visitor centre.The £10 million museum is a slimmed-down version of a grandiose project costing £24.7 million which failed to raise enough funding. Money has been found for the more modest scheme which will be run by the Lakeland Arts Trust whose other flagships, Abbot Hall in Kendal, Blackwell south of Windermere and the Museum of Lakeland Life, are all highly-rated attractions.Carmody Groarke is a relatively new practice which won the Young Architect of the Year award in 2007. Its other flagship project has been the memorial for the victims of the July 7 bombing in London in 2005.The judges, who took into account people's views at a brief public display of the shortlist in Windermere, say of the winning design:Carmody Groarke has produced a memorable and sensitive set of design proposals which demonstrated an excellent understanding of the multi-faceted nature of the Brief and the Trust's requirements. The conflicting demands of providing a functional museum to house, display and conserve the historic boat collection within a facility that will create a high-quality visitor experience and have broad audience appeal to encourage repeat visits had been addressed particularly well. The simple forms of the cantilevered buildings were considered to resonate well with the heritage of the site, as well as the Lakeland landscape and steamboat architecture.The others on the shortlist were: 6a Architects Adam Khan Architects Niall McLaughlin Architects Reiach and Hall Architects Sutherland Hussey Architects                 Terry Pawson Architects Witherford Watson Mann ArchitectsThe steamboat museum has been closed since 2007 but has now passed the first stage of approval for a potential Lottery grant of £7.4 million, with the approval of a £494,000 to develop the full bid. Its collection includes Dolly, salvaged from Ullswater after sinking in the great frost of 1895, and the oldest working mechanically powered boat in the world. Another star exhibit will be Esperance, a luxurious craft commissioned by the multi-millionaire ironmaster Henry Schneider who commuted on it and his personal train to Barrow-in-Furness. The Esperance stood in as Captain Flint's houseboat in films of the Swallows and Amazons stories written by the Manchester Guardian foreign correspondent Arthur Ransome. Other exhibits will include the Dawn, the UK's oldest surviving sailing yacht, built in 1780, and Beatrix Potter's odd, square-shaped rowing dinghy.Lake DistrictMuseumsMuseumsBoating holidaysWindermereTourism, transport and travelMartin Wainwrightguardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

A 14-part series that attempts to make simple and accessible one of the most complex subjects imaginable will be distributed via booklets given away free with The Independent and The Independent on Sunday beginning tomorrow, and will simultaneously be made available at independent.co.uk/historyoftheworld. Starting with the origins of the Universe itself, it traces the formation of our planet, the first stirrings of life, the shaping of the continents, the evolution of species, the birth of the human race, and the millennia of history that have led up to the sophisticated but precarious civilisations of the present day.

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