In 2011 @stephenfry, actor, comedian, writer and famed alumnus of Cambridge University, tweeted:
'No! No! Say it ain't so not Fitzbillies? Why I tweeted a pic of one of their peerless Chelsea buns but a sixmonth ago.'
Recession had driven the legendary Cambridge bakery into bankruptcy and it had shut its doors. Alison Wright and Tim Hayward read Stephen's tweet:
Alison: 'Did you see the tweet?' Tim: 'I did. Terribly sad. Awful how places like that are going...' Alison: 'I've called the agents. We're going to view it on Monday.'
Featuring over 50 recipes, Fitzbillies celebrates a centenary of the shop, staff and cakes that have fed generations of writers, philosophers, Nobel prize-winning scientists, comedians, internationally renowned historians, musicians and film stars alike.