Peach Melba

Which was hard because it was the King's Hotel and very fancy, and they didn't even let the doorman go barefoot, so they weren't going to let the guests go barefoot.

So we got him up and we had a five-day seminar in the room on hot baths and Peach Melba and hashish and mescaline and Alexandra David Neel and Arthur Avedon and so on.

At the end of five days, I was aware that this guy knew.

Now what was I going to do about this? Because my friend was going on to Japan and I was planning to go with him, and that was my first-class ticket.

Melba toast.

She has a dessert called the Peach Melba.

We're giving her a Nellie biopic, Leigh.

What would your tagline be?

But the other, also things like, it's become a lot less common to name dishes after famous people.

I mean, it used to be things, Peach Melba, for example, there's another one, but I mean, it used to be a lot more common to name dishes food after famous people.

And I think our home baking culture, COVID aside, really isn't what it was.

And also there are very few celebrity figures today who would willingly surrender control of their brand like that.

I don't know.

The Peach Melba is still going to be on Acosta's.

I had dinner at Acosta's in Timonium the other night after the Orioles made me vomit after the Colorado loss.

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Folks called her Melba, and that's why when people order that thin-sliced bread, they ask for Melba toast.

Helen also loved rich desserts and lent her name to one, Peach Melba.

Being famous helped Helen earn lots and lots of bread.

With the Success Journal, I'm Chris Whitting.