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Mary Berry. from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 29 July 2012. [2] Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunnings[3] DBE (née Berry; born 24 March 1935) is an English food writer, chef, baker and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering at college. She then moved to France at the age of ...
Lionel Poilâne (June 10, 1945 – October 31, 2002) was a French baker and entrepreneur whose commitment to crafting quality bread earned him worldwide renown. His father, Pierre Poilâne started a baking business in 1932, creating bread using stone-ground flour, natural fermentation and a wood-fired oven. Lionel took over the bakery in 1970 ...
List of bakers. This is a list of notable bakers. Maria Anna Fisher, 19th-century biscuit entrepreneur. Paul Hollywood, judge of The Great British Bake Off. Charles Joughin, chief baker aboard the RMS Titanic. James William Middleton, baker of theme cakes. Angelo Motta, Milanese baker famous for the revival of panettone.
Baker is an easily recognizable English surname of medieval occupational origin; Baxster is the female form. [26][27] Equivalent family names of occupational origin meaning "baker" exist in other languages: Boulanger, Bulinger, Dufour, and Fournier in French, Bäcker in German, and Piekarz in Polish.
Joseph Lee (inventor) Joseph Lee (July 4, 1848 – June 11, 1908) was an American baker and inventor. He successfully managed a hotel in Needham, Massachusetts for about a decade and later managed restaurants near Boston, ran a resort in Squantum, and ran a successful catering company. Lee was also an innovator, creating machines that ...
Egyptian Museum, Turin. Bread was central to the formation of early human societies. From the Fertile Crescent, where wheat was domesticated, cultivation spread north and west, to Europe and North Africa, and east toward East Asia. This in turn led to the formation of towns, which curtailed nomadic lifestyles, and gave rise to more and more ...
Baking in ancient Rome. Baking was a popular profession and source of food in ancient Rome. Many ancient Roman baking techniques were developed due to Greek bakers who traveled to Rome following the Third Macedonian War (171–168 BC). Ancient Roman bakers could make large quantities of money. This may have contributed to receiving a negative ...
Florian Bellanger in 2010 Roland Mesnier does a cooking demonstration at the 2007 Texas Book Festival. President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush lead the celebration of the 81st birthday of Pope Benedict XVI as he is presented with a cake by the White House Executive Pastry Chef, William Yosses (left).