Christmas cracker tradition of wearing festive hats is believed to date back to Roman times and the Saturnalia celebrations, which also involved decorative headgear. Christmas crackers are also associated with Knut's parties, held in Sweden at the end of the Christmas season. The "Oxford English Dictionary" records the use of "cracker bonbons" and the pulling of "crackers" from 1847. Tradition tells of how Tom Smith of London invented crackers in 1847. He created the crackers as a development of his bon-bon sweets, which he sold in a twist of paper (the origins of the traditional sweet-wrapper). As sales of bon-bons slumped, Smith
Jon Baker (producer) 13 September 2010, and was received well by critics in Europe. Jon Baker (producer) Baker was born in 1960. His father was a specialist car dealer and his mother Maureen Baker was head designer at the British ready-to-wear fashion firm Susan Small, who designed dresses for Princess Anne (including her wedding dress) and other notable people. In 1977 Baker went to the Chelsea School of Art in London, where he was introduced to the punk scene. In 1978, he opened "Blooz", a shop in Kensington Market that specialized in punk rock and new wave style T-shirts. By the end of