Nation's Capital Gets its Just Desserts; San Francisco's Pelosi `Whips' Washington Into Shape With Hometown Cakes At Swearing-in Ceremony.Business & Food Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2002 This week a sweet celebration graced the House of Representatives. As Nancy AS Nancy-Lorraine is a French football club, based in Nancy. The team was founded in 1967 as a successor of the defunct FC Nancy, which collapsed in 1965. It was promoted to Ligue 1 for the 2005-06 season. Michel Platini played for the club between 1973 and 1979. Pelosi swears in as America's first female Democratic Whip, Bay Area confectioner Just Desserts A retributive theory of criminal punishment that proposes reduced judicial discretion in sentencing and specific sentences for criminal acts without regard to the individual defendant. has shown its support by delivering more than 450 of its Classic American Cakes to every member of the House and other leaders in the Capitol. "This is our best way of expressing our congratulations to Mrs. Pelosi on this monumental day," said Just Desserts' co-owner Gail Horvath. "I have always been an admirer of Nancy Pelosi's political presence in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . With her election to national office, Mrs. Pelosi will be the highest-ranking woman in the House of Representatives. This is history in the making, and it deserves a proper celebration." Straight from the heart of San Francisco, Just Desserts has deep roots in the American city best known for culinary cu·li·nar·y adj. Of or relating to a kitchen or to cookery. [Latin cul  n excellence and progressive politics. Horvath founded the company with her husband, Elliot Hoffman, by baking cheesecakes in their Haight-Ashbury apartment in 1974. Today the couple owns and operates the company from a 65,000square-foot facility in Oakland's Enterprise zone. "We feel that our cakes are a must-have for inspiring true bipartisan celebration," said Elliot Hoffman. "As longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective supporters of progressive politics in the Bay Area and across the nation, we are thrilled that Nancy Pelosi has risen to this Congressional role." Just Desserts will give a fair and equal representation of all dessert-loving constituencies: Chocolate Cakes will be delivered along with Lemon, Carrot carrot, common name for some members of the Umbelliferae, a family (also called the parsley family) of chiefly biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions. , Mocha Mocha (mō`kə), town (1990 est. pop. 2,000), S Yemen, a port on the Red Sea. It was noted for the export of the coffee to which it gave its name but declined as a trading port in the late 19th cent. with the rise of Hodeida and Aden. Cream and Berries and Cream. Hoffman and Horvath are introducing their award-winning cakes to the national marketplace, with the mission of "Liberty and Just Desserts for all." Currently, Just Desserts cakes can be purchased throughout San Francisco's Bay Area, at SuperTarget stores nationally and at King Soopers stores in Colorado. Just Desserts' line of classic cakes is the nation's first line of 100 percent natural American-style cakes available in supermarket bakeries. |
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