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Fashion Designer - Geoffrey Beene was born in 1924 in Louisiana.

 Beene is known in the fashion industry to have an out-of-the-box approach to designing women’s clothes. Dubbed as the ‘godfather of minimalism’, for his non-stereotypical approach on designing couture, he studied at New York’s Traphagen School of Fashion. He then relocated to Paris to study at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.

 1969

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Nigella’s Mother-in-Law’s Madeira Cake

 

(slightly adapted from Nigella Lawson’s How To Be A Domestic Goddess)

• 240 grams softened unsalted butter
• 200 grams caster sugar, plus 2 tablespoons for sprinkling
• Grated zest and juice of one lemon
• 3 large eggs
• 300 grams all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

– Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, and then mix in the lemon zest.

– Add the eggs to the butter/sugar mixture, one at a time, with a tablespoon of flour for each.

– Gently mix in the rest of the flour, to which you have whisked in the baking powder.  Add the lemon juice and mix until just combined.

– Scrape the batter into a buttered and parchment-lined loaf pan and sprinkle the 2 tablespoons sugar on top.  Bake in a pre-heated 170C oven for 55 minutes – 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean.

– Remove from the oven to a wire rack and cool in the pan for 10 minutes.  Remove from the pan and cool completely on the wire rack.

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Elsa Schiaparelli. 1939