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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...
...I’d seen it first on Instagram, or perhaps it was TikTok, where all the cool girls are getting cakes that look like they were plucked from the table of one of Judy Blume’s awkward-yet-adorable teen-girl...
...Birtwistle’s breakthrough came with the premiere of Punch and Judy at the 1968 Aldeburgh Festival....
...In 1939 Busby Berkeley directed a film version of Babes in Arms starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney....
...Rihanna and Chris Brown, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, Punch and Judy. Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. It’s the Donald Trump syndrome....
...“There is a growing realisation about how important this issue is,” says Judy Baker, chairwoman of the challenge’s trustees and a former senior government adviser at the UK’s Centre for the Protection of...
...When told she was born under the same sign as Judy Garland, she suggested she had more in common with Walt Whitman....
...Serves up to 10 50g raisins 25g baker’s yeast 250ml milk 600g flour 100g sugar 2 eggs +2 egg yolks 200g butter 100g melted butter 50g flaked almonds Pour two cups of boiling water over the raisins...
...“Recruitment is at a very difficult level,” said Judy Baker, director of the challenge....
...Norman Mailer described her as “a one-woman kamikaze”; Nicholson Baker said that having his novel A Box of Matches panned by Kakutani was “like having my liver taken out without anaesthesia”....
...Yet Baker’s protagonist, Paul Chowder, is a warm, genial presence whose musings are likely to spike anyone’s interest in poetry....
...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....
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