Hints and tips:
...The keeper of the National Collection is Terry Baker, whose foxglove stands at Chelsea have enlarged our awareness of the plant’s diversity....
...This duo of Taittinger, Comtes de Champagne 2002s, of which one had clearly the more developed bouquet, led most of us to guess it was the bottle when, in fact, it was the magnum....
...At Margarita Se Llama Mi Amor (“my love is called Daisy”), a florist on the same street, assistant Dani is putting together a bold bouquet for a lady with a chihuahua on a lead....
...I am reminded of Bill Baker, a much-missed wine merchant of heroic proportions and generosity, who always did the cooking on Christmas day....
...Later, in the streets of nearby Salve we found bakers baking bread in ancient stone ovens, bought jars of wild capers, bulbous puntarelle, mushrooms and bouquets of round red peppers....
...After all, this son of an Alsatian baker, who started making cakes with his father when he was only nine, has been at the vanguard of turning pastry into the culinary equivalent of haute couture....
...My friend is an excellent baker: she can whip up a three-tier wedding cake in an afternoon with no stress, and ice it the following dawn. She knows where the world’s best cake recipes come from....
...Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers have given way to baristas, waiters and floggers of tourist tat....
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