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...Thereafter it’s a whistle-stop tour through Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie, Judy Garland et al, interspersed with touches of memoir, such as Baker’s Nanna Betty with her crocheted-doll toilet-roll...
...Law firm Baker McKenzie has hired Oliver Jefferies as a partner in its banking and finance practice. He joins in London from Stephenson Harwood....
...Around them were farmers, bakers, dairymen and others plying their crafts....
...(In Polari, policemen were denoted with archly feminised monikers like Lily Law and Betty Bracelets.)...
...There’s great work too from Danielle Hope as serious singer Betty and Brenda Edwards as the concierge, both holding this vast house with their solo numbers....
...In some sense they would be a version of 1960s-era housewives, whose misery was grimly detailed in Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique....
...Bettys started in 1919 when Frederick Belmont, a Swiss confectioner, married a local woman and opened his first Bettys Café Tea Rooms in Harrogate....
...The grandma I had known — never less than immaculately coiffed and dressed, a shrewd and knowledgeable collector of antiques, and a baker of puddings so sublime I can taste them to this day — slowly disappeared...
...Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms has been a Yorkshire institution for almost 100 years, founded by Frederick Belmont, a Swiss baker and confectioner who emigrated to Britain in 1919 and — legend has it — erroneously...
...To understand about Bettys, you need to go back to at least 1907, when an impecunious young baker named Fritz Bützer set off from his native Switzerland with his sights set on finding work in prosperous...
...Blige recites their names like a sacred litany: “Aretha [Franklin], Gladys [Knight], Mavis [Staples], Betty Wright, Chaka Khan . . . ” Her break came when she recorded a version of an Anita Baker song and...
...So we were raised by them, along with Betty the barmaid; Nellie the baker; Douglas the chef ... It has stood me in good stead ever since. Dotti Irving, London W4, UK...
...Probably the only reason that home bakers do not make it more often is that it calls for fresh white breadcrumbs – and these are not always as readily available as flour....
...Sacramento Street (between Baker and Spruce) is officially part of the Pacific Heights neighbourhood and caters to the “local out-of-town” clients from Marin, Napa and other parts of the Bay Area....
...Ray Kelvin, founder and chief executive, Ted Baker. Tony Kennan, chairman, Multiple Sclerosis Society. George Kerr, for services to judo. John Lloyd, radio and TV producer....
...But 70-year-old Betty Vaisey, in a puffy anorak and baker boy cap, finds there is a drawback to remembering M&S’s good old days....
...Yet Baker’s protagonist, Paul Chowder, is a warm, genial presence whose musings are likely to spike anyone’s interest in poetry....
...He cites a Booths-inspired project that will enable Staff of Life, a craft bakery for the Kendal store, to license a fellow baker to supply breads made to Staff’s recipes to stores elsewhere....
...Bruce Flowers, whose big break was playing with Betty Carter, remembers the great singer quizzing him on his other gigs, many not very jazz-like....
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