Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced rusk, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame...
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A Toast to Melba is a 1976 Australian play by Jack Hibberd. A biography of Dame Nellie Melba, Hibberd described it as: Another 'Popular Play' like The...
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Peach Melba (French: pêche Melba, pronounced [pɛʃ mɛlba]) is a dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream. It was invented in 1892 or...
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variants include eggy bread, Bombay toast, gypsy toast, and poor knights (of Windsor). When French toast is served as a sweet dish, sugar, vanilla, or cinnamon...
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Melba, a dessert Melba toast, a dry, thin, crisp toast often served with soup This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Melba...
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Peach Melba, a dessert made of peaches, raspberry sauce, and vanilla ice cream Melba sauce, a sweet purée of raspberries and red currant Melba toast, a crisp...
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participation at a golden wedding celebration. A Toast to Melba and The Les Darcy Show embraces the lives of the famous diva Dame Nellie Melba and the champion...
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Crackers are also sometimes used instead of toast. Melba toast – a dry, crisp and thinly sliced toast, often served with soup and salad or topped with...
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List of inventions named after people (section A to F)
Stevens Maxim McCormick reaper – Cyrus McCormick Melba toast, Peach Melba, Melba sauce – Nellie Melba Melvillade – Robert Melville Mercator projection...
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On 8 June 1981, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the performing arts. She was promoted to Officer in the 2020 Queen's Birthday...
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Melba Tolliver (born 1939) is an American journalist and former New York City news anchor and reporter. She is best remembered for her defiant stance...
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Old London Foods (section Melba toast)
Old London Foods, a subsidiary of B&G Foods, is a company best known for its Melba toast products. Originally based in the Bronx and called the King Kone...
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Melba Joyce Montgomery (born October 14, 1938) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for a series of duet recordings made with...
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Kevin Rudd, for a possible new caricature in a new production being developed. "I'm watching him closely" he said. He is married to publisher Louise...
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Reducing Diet” to Ethel Barrymore which included Melba toast. Sophie and Harry’s products were high in demand. Because Sophie used Melba toast for her own...
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Michael Aitkens (born 1947) is a British actor and writer of drama scripts for movies, television and stage. His BBC situation comedy Waiting for God...
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Henri Szeps (category Swiss emigrants to Australia)
three-year-old sister made their way to a refugee camp in Lausanne, where Henri was born. At 11⁄2 months he was fostered to a Swiss couple in Blumenstein. His...
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Actor in a Single TV Performance: Richard Moir for Players to the Gallery Best Actress in a Single TV Performance: Robyn Nevin for A Toast to Melba. Best...
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Tim Eliott (category New Zealand emigrants to Australia)
Women (1977) – Doctor Hargreaves A Toast to Melba (1980, TV movie) On the Run (1983) – Armourer Utu (1984) – Col. Elliot A Halo for Athuan (1984) – Father...
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List of plays adapted into feature films (section A)
(1989) To Oblige a Lady (1931) To the Ladies (1923) A Toast to Melba (see 1980 TV production) Tobacco Road (film) (1941) Toby's Bow (1919) To-Day (1917) Tom...
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it was "a fairly intimidating place to be if you weren't great at sports or maths. However once [I] joined the debating team, and went on to win the state...
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to Sydney to study acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) graduating in 1977 with a Diploma of Acting, which she later converted to a...
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Montgomery, Melba (November 1966). "Country Girl (Disc Information)". Musicor Records. MS-3074. Montgomery, Melba (March 1967). "Melba Toast (Disc Information)"...
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Anna Volska (category Polish emigrants to Australia)
in Australia when she was young and has acted from a young age. Anna Volska moved from Poland to Australia with her mother when she was seven. She graduated...
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Daughters, A Rum Do!, Oh, What a Lovely War! and the play She Stoops to Conquer. She played Petra in the 1973 original Australian cast of A Little Night...
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The Dingo Principle and Three Men and a Baby Grand, satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Jonathan Biggins...
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Woolloomooloo. It went on to tour Australia-wide, at the Edinburgh Festival, and with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and was also adapted as a television series...
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'flour'. Another name is galeta, a loanword from Catalan. In the US, commonly available types of rusk include melba toast and croutons, which are sold packaged...
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the Australian Film Commission. In 1980 he won a Sammy Award for directing A Toast to Melba. He returned to directing theatre in 1982 with Errol Flynn's...
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the movie clips became prohibitive. Sheila McCook, "We'll skip the toast to Melba". Ottawa Citizen, May 31, 1972. "CTV plans new shows". Grande Prairie...
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