Hi, I'm Lila Raptopoulos. Thank you for finding your way here for the first episode, the very first of F.T. Weekend.

This is a showcase. It's a showcase of the stories and ideas inside the Life and Arts Journalism at the Financial Times.

Regular readers of FT. Weekend might know what that means. You'll hear about art, food, travel, style, film, and also will take you places. Places you're curious about and places you may not have known you wanted to go. And if you're new to the financial times and don't know much about FT. Weekend, stay tuned. I have a lot of people to introduce you to.

And then all of a sudden, you're number one and then what? Where are you going now?

If you feel like you have to have something, you'll die if you walk away from it. If you saw it on

somebody else's arm, it would cause you physical pain. You should just buy it in that moment.

The conditions were corrosive. The weather was terrible, and even the water ran salty from

the taps, so it's a house haunted by its origin myth.

In this episode, we'll dig into a strange and petty phenomenon with our architecture

and design critic Edwin Hethkut, and then hear tips on how to thrift for your home from

my colleague Madison

Derbyshire. Before that, for our first story, I speak to two of the world's most revered chefs,

but it's not about what you'd expect. We're talking about their quest to do good in an increasingly

troubled world. In New York City, there's a restaurant so popular

that even if someone famous calls Day of to make a reservation...

Okay, Jimmy Fallon just walked in?

They get seated at the bar.

The host of the Tonight Show can't get a seat in the dining room.

And that can happen when your wait list is 50,000 people long.

11 Madison Park has been one of the top restaurants in the world for more than a decade.

It has three Michelin stars, and in 2017, it was actually awarded World's Best Restaurant.

Its chef, Daniel Hume, is known as this culinary genius, one of the true grates, and he's only

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