This may shock you (after all, as Hugh FW has observed, the pancake is essentially the forefather of the Yorkshire pudding), but it is not really a savoury item.
Mr Bolkestein is a forefather of Dutch Euroscepticism (Mr Wilders started his political career in the VVD).
The method devised by Jean Monnet, the EU's forefather, was to move in half-steps, justified on technocratic merit.
He had a genius for financial innovation and an utter disregard for accounting niceties, making him a forefather of some of the financial scandals of the 21st century.
This question was first addressed in 1937 by Ronald Coase, the winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for economics and the intellectual forefather of both of this year's winners.
For some 50 years John Thornton, a wealthy businessman and a forefather of the group, gave away £3,000 annually (£200,000 today).
In the partners' room, he sits next to his ninth cousin (they share a forefather with many "greats" in front).
"Even our forefather, Jacob, went down to Egypt to earn double the salary and pay a third of the rent," sing the hip-hoppers.Israelis with Ashkenazi, or East European, ancestry are queuing at German, Hungarian and Polish consulates for what was once regarded as a shameful act of seeking European passports.
In an otherwise intelligent book, which I review for the current print edition, Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls al-Ghazali the forefather of today's violent fanatics.
Today he is the subject of increasing historical interest and has been variously reconfigured as the true forefather of evolutionary theory, as an exploitative industrial capitalist, as a major influencer of Romantic literature, and as a prescient inventor whose insights included the steering system used in cars.
On this basis, critics such as Benjamin Constant and J.L. Talmon have accused Rousseau of being an authoritarian thinker and, in the second case, a forefather of totalitarian politics.
