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Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
How the Spanish do alfresco dining, by José Pizarro
A sunny bank holiday is on the cards but the Spanish chef and restaurateur José Pizarro is looking further ahead. 'I have already been thinking about what I will serve when I have friends in the garden this summer, in London but also at my house on the coast in Spain,' he says. As the chef responsible for introducing Brits to authentic, really Spanish food, and with six restaurants in the UK, Pizarro knows how to deliver crowd-pleasers, even if the English weather means he is more often than not doing so inside. So what are his golden rules for outdoor feasting? Don't try to show off 'It's the one thing I will never do: serve something cheffy,' Pizarro explains. 'When I am hosting a barbecue I don't want to see any stupid, fussy things. Hosting is about everyone having fun and that includes myself, so anything complicated is a no, no, no for me.' Serve white sangria as soon as guests arrive As he is Spanish, the answer is of course sangria — but Pizarro prefers white sangria made with cava over the traditional red sort made with wine. 'You make it exactly in the same way: fill a jug with fruits, although with white sangria I don't add lemon, I put in oranges instead, with stone fruits and strawberries,' he says. 'Add a bit of sugar and a splash of brandy to bring all the flavours together. With normal red wine sangria you'll add the wine at this point and then soda but I just leave it like this until I am ready to serve so it marinates. Then just before serving, I add a lot of ice and cava. It's absolutely delicious.' Anchovies make the best starter 'Anchovies are king,' Pizarro says. The best kind, he adds, are the Cantabrian Reserva Catalina: 'They are huge and meaty.' During the summer months his favourite way to serve anchovies is with grated tomatoes. 'Cut a tomato in half, grate it on to a big plate and add some extra virgin olive oil, a touch of lemon juice and some grated garlic. Put the anchovies on top and you have an absolutely stunning dish. I have that all the time in summer because the tomatoes then are so nice.' It's OK to buy some things in Not everything needs to be made from scratch. 'I always make sure I have bowls of olives and I am Spanish so I will always make sure that I have lots of jamon. My favourite thing to do, which I recently did, is to treat myself to a bowl of caviar, which I put on ice. I then cook a big bag of French fries and dip them in. It is stunning.' Seafood, seafood, seafood 'Prawns, mussels, grilled fish — they're always a winner for summer parties,' Pizarro says. For a simple prawn dish he makes a salad of fennel, lettuce and oranges, and serves it with a simple honey vinaigrette. 'I'll brush the prawns with a bit of oil and then barbecue them whole so that the head is still on. It goes perfectly with that salad.' Don't forget vegetables 'Aside from a rack of Iberico pork ribs and prawns, I will make sure that I have lots of gorgeous vegetables on my grill too — courgettes, tomatoes, aubergines,' he says. 'I will make a really nice escalivada from roast tomatoes, peppers, onions and aubergine. But if you're serving vegetables the best thing to do is to make a romesco sauce the night before to make them taste delicious.' To make a romesco sauce, heat the oven to 180C, then place three ripe peppers and three ripe tomatoes on a baking tray and drizzle with olive oil. When slightly charred, leave to cool. Blend with 100g toasted almonds and 100g hazelnuts until smooth. Season with salt and sherry vinegar. Have a dessert table It's good to keep the mains and starters straightforward but dessert is the time to shine. 'I love my tables of dessert and I love having a lot of things there,' Pizarro admits. Alongside bowls of cherries and platters of fresh strawberries is Pizarro's go-to summer dessert: roasted stone fruit. 'Roast some stone fruit like peaches. They smell like sunshine. Peel them and blanch them just a little bit to remove the skins, and remove the stone. One per person. Then put honey on top, a lot of orange juice and lavender. Roast in the oven for 15 minutes, baste and then roast for another five. When you put that on the table, everyone gets lost. It's so beautiful you just want to stay there with your friends, eating for another hour.' What should you ask guests to bring? There are no tactics, Pizarro says. 'Look, people usually arrive with a bottle of wine or, better, an extra virgin olive oil but I don't ask anyone. Tell them to come hungry and thirsty and then your job is to make sure you have plenty of everything — drinks, food and hopefully, if we are lucky, sunshine.'
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Southern California Edison likely faces ‘material losses' from Eaton Fire, CEO says
This story was originally published on Utility Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Utility Dive newsletter. Although investigations into the cause of January's Eaton Wildfire in Southern California remain ongoing, it seems 'probable' that Southern California Edison will incur material losses in connection with the fire, Pedro Pizarro, president and CEO of parent company Edison International, told investors during a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. Preliminary evidence, disclosed in February by SCE, indicates the company's equipment may have been involved in starting the fire. To date, neither SCE nor third party investigators have identified solid evidence to suggest that another source could have ignited the fire, Pizarro said. It could take 12 to 18 months for investigators to come to a conclusion about the cause of the fire, Pizarro said. Meanwhile, the company has opened discussions with state lawmakers about the future of California's wildfire insurance fund for utilities, which SCE plans to tap to pay any legal claims that may result from the fire. Pizarro wouldn't rule out the possibility that the Eaton Fire could have been started by something other than SCE's power lines. But three months after the fire began, the absence of any competing theories about its ignition suggest it is 'probable' that the utility will be found liable for losses associated with the fire, he said. SCE expects investigations into the cause of the fire to continue for a year or more and potential settlements with plaintiffs could be even further out, Pizarro said. The County of Los Angeles and the cities of Sierra Madre and Pasadena have already filed suit against SCE for damages related to the fire, which the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection estimates burned 14,000 acres and destroyed more than 9,000 structures. Pizarro declined to estimate the financial value of those damages, but said that third-party estimates he has seen remain within the scope of the California Wildfire Fund's financial capacity. The recent occurrence of several catastrophic wildfires within a relatively short window of time has raised questions about whether the $21 billion fund will prove adequate to cover utilities' legal losses. Experts who helped shape the fund also believe it should be able to cover the Eaton Fire damages, but worry it may not have enough left over to pay for the next catastrophic California wildfire. But for the time being, Pizarro said he remains confident that SCE will be able to tap the fund to pay any claims resulting from the fire. The company will first draw on its own $1 billion self-insurance account before turning to the state-run insurance fund for reimbursement of wildfire related claims, he said. He saw no reason to believe SCE would be barred from accessing the fund, which should enable the company to avoid having to issue debt to pay legal claims. 'They've made it a very streamlined, straightforward process once you hit the point where you need to access' the fund, Maria Rigatti, chief financial officer for Edison International, said. Pizarro said the company has opened discussions with California lawmakers about possible legislation to shore up the fund, and indicated that state policymakers seem to support the notion of expanding the fund to ensure it can continue to cover future wildfires. However, he said conversations remained in their early stages, and that it was too early to discuss exactly how the state will finance an expansion of the fund. 'We're just very committed to ... helping educate and to making sure that policymakers understand the implications here,' Pizarro said. 'This is ultimately about how do we maintain safety for our communities and do it at the lowest cost possible to customers. And so we're making sure that, for example, people understand the impacts that actions from the shareholder side can have on the cost of debt, on credit ratings and therefore, to customer cost — so I think that's still in the that early phase of getting arms around the topic.' Recommended Reading Insurance — public or private — likely won't stop utility wildfire risks, experts say Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
How the Spanish do alfresco dining, by José Pizarro
A sunny bank holiday is on the cards but the Spanish chef and restaurateur José Pizarro is looking further ahead. 'I have already been thinking about what I will serve when I have friends in the garden this summer, in London but also at my house on the coast in Spain,' he says. As the chef responsible for introducing Brits to authentic, really Spanish food, and with six restaurants in the UK, Pizarro knows how to deliver crowd-pleasers, even if the English weather means he is more often than not doing so inside. So what are his golden rules for outdoor feasting? 'It's the one thing I will never do: serve something cheffy,' Pizarro explains. 'When I am hosting a barbecue I don't want to
Reuters
29-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Edison International beats profit estimates on lower expenses, rate hikes
April 29 (Reuters) - Edison International (EIX.N), opens new tab beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as the utility benefited from lower operating and interest expenses and higher rates for its services. Lower interest rates reduce borrowing costs for power companies, which usually need more capital for expenses such as maintaining and upgrading the electric grid. The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know about the global energy industry. Sign up here. Interest expenses at Edison fell 32.2% to $301 million in the first quarter, while total operating expenses fell 56.2% to $1.7 billion. Power bills are expected to go up as fresh power supply struggles to keep up with rising demand from AI data centers, increased domestic manufacturing and extreme weather conditions like wildfires. Southern California Edison (SCE), Edison's unit, has been facing multiple lawsuits which allege that its electrical equipment started one of the major wildfires in the Los Angeles area – the Eaton fire. "We are working closely with state and county leaders and the communities of Altadena and Malibu to rebuild wildfire-impacted areas," CEO Pedro Pizarro said. "Once constructed, SCE's grid hardening in these areas will increase reliability and reduce the exposure of electrical distribution infrastructure to high wind and other extreme weather events" Pizarro added. The company reaffirmed its full-year 2025 forecast for adjusted earnings in a range of $5.94 per share to $6.34 per share. Analysts have estimated them at $6.01 per share. The Rosemead, California-based company posted an adjusted profit of $1.37 per share for the quarter ended March 31, compared with analysts' estimate of $1.20 per share, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
Marshall County Sheriff's Office names person of interest in search for missing, possibly endangered teen
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Marshall County Sheriff's Office said a teen missing since April 19 could be in danger, and a person of interest has been named. The sheriff's office said Dayetssi Carrasquillo Pizarro, 13, was last seen near the 6900 block of Martling Road in Albertville with her dog on April 19. MCSO said Pizarro is a Hispanic girl with black hair and brown eyes and her dog is a chocolate colored 'American Bully' dog. The sheriff's office said her last known clothing description is unknown. The person of interest has been identified as 32-year-old Raul Alexis Arellano Romero. The sheriff's office said he is a Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes, reportedly 5'8″ and 135 lbs. The sheriff's office said he has ties to Huntsville and his vehicle description is unknown at this time. If you have any information on the whereabouts of the victim, contact the Marshall County Sheriff's Office at (256) 582-2034 or call 911. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
