We cook corn in the same giant white enamel pot, now slightly chipped.

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Add the remaining spring of thyme, bay leaf, and white wine to the pot and bring to the boil.

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Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avantha's electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a silver pot.

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