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...For example, a gorgonzola cremificato spooned by the chef on to melba toast with truffle honey.”...
...The dessert menu consists exclusively of retro puddings: fruit cocktail jelly, tiramisu, black forest gâteau, summer pudding, brandy snaps, strawberry and cream tart, Arctic roll, peach melba and knickerbocker...
...June 1 to 16; further information here July Performance ‘Dido and Aeneas’, Melba Hall A new production of Purcell’s Baroque opera by VOYCE (Victorian Opera Youth Chorus Ensemble) in a grand Melbourne...
...Decade by decade, from Paul Thompson’s middle-aged, spectacled “Dr Mary Walker, the first woman to wear trousers in public” (1911), belonging to Vanity Fair, to Jack Robinson’s nude portrait of black singer Melba...
...Desserts include peach-melba soufflé and a raspberry blancmange (moulded in the shape of a rabbit). “Finally [our artists] have a home in London. They will always have a table here,” says Iwan....
...Pioneering composer Percy Grainger, concert pianist David Helfgott from the Oscar-winning movie Shine and Olivia Newton-John are some of its most famous exports, while Dame Nellie Melba took her stage name...
...More than a century later, Peach Melba is still very much in circulation. Enter what we fondly call The Melba Bar: that peach-and-raspberry combo in a less operatic, more picnic-friendly form....
...Vogler darts between centuries, extrapolating on fish knives, picnics and doilies, roast beef, pork pies and the fall of peach melba (invented by the feted chef Escoffier in the 1890s, by the 1970s it was...
...I eyed up the towering sundaes, their sherbet-hued balls of gelato suspended between layers of strawberry syrup, and the peach Melbas that looked like they were topped with sweet shaving foam....
...As I have only done three farewell tours, I’ve started planning the fourth and fifth, in the great tradition of opera singer Dame Nellie Melba....
...Dame Nellie Melba was the first musician ever to give a live broadcast recital, from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford, Essex....
...Melba Duncan was an executive assistant to Lehman Brothers boss, Pete Peterson, for years until she founded her own top flight assistant recruiting firm in New York more than 30 years ago....
...and strawberry sorbet served with a Melba sauce)....
...Or Nellie Melba and Luciano Pavarotti? Neither pair was alive at the same time, but that will not matter any more....
...Escoffier said to her, I'm afraid it doesn't have a name at present. The peche Melba was born. Peach Melba is the quintessence of summer....
...In a posh ice cream parlour this was made from strained raspberry jam and used to flavour the peach melba....
...Emphasis is placed on this style of service — waiters preparing a crab Louis or a wild mushroom omelette or an extremely good peach melba by your side, or using an old-fashioned duck press to squeeze out...
...Melba Acosta Febo, president of the GDB, said: This irresponsible rumour is damaging to the Bank as an institution, as well as needlessly harmful to our employees and their families....
...Melba Acosta Febo, president of the GDB, said that the island had chosen to default on obligations where bond documents stated revenues assigned to the organisations were able to be clawed back....
...Donizetti’s opera used to be the playground of great voices — Patti and Rubini, Melba and Sutherland, Caballé and Pavarotti, all sang it at Covent Garden. Sadly, those are no more....
...over,” said Melba Acosta Febo, president of the island’s development bank....
...Melba Acosta Febo, president of the GDB, said that rumours that the bank would be shut down or privatised were false and that it intended to continue to negotiate with its creditors....
...‘We’ve run out of tricks, we’ve run out of emergency measures,” said Melba Acosta Febo, president of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico. eric.platt@ft.com Twitter: @ericgplatt...
...“In accordance with the terms of these bonds, the transfer was not made due to the non-appropriation of funds,” said Melba Acosta Febo, president of Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank....
...Richness and earthiness came via a plate of monkfish liver with melba toast, and thick slices of toast topped with spicy, salty black pudding glazed with something sweet....
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