Marguerite Patten is one of Britain's best known & best loved cookery writers. She is the author of over 170 books & numerous newspaper & magazine articles. Her " Cookery in Colour" was first published in 1960 & with sales of over 2 million copies has broken all records in cookery book publishing. She was awarded an OBE in 1991 for 'services to the art of cookery' & in addition she received Lifetime Achievement Awards in 1995 from the Guild of Food Writers, in 1996 from the Trustees of the Andre Simon Award, in 1998 from the BBC Good Food Awards & in 2007 Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. Here she turns her attention to one of her real true passions
- the classic cookery of the British Isles. From traditional breakfasts, to high teas, from roasts to hearty soups she has selected a collection of over 400 of her favourite recipes showing the enormous & exciting variety of British produce & cooking. She covers soups, fish dishes, meat, poultry & game, vegetables, salads & savoury dishes as well as puddings, baking & preserves. Marguerite Patten's career spans more than half a century & began before World War II working for the Ministry of Food. She had a weekly television programme in the early days of broadcasting in the late 1940s & throughout the 1950s. Since then she has lectured, given countless thousands of demonstrations & written articles & cookery cards & many, many successful books. She celebrated her 90th birthday in 2005 but still works full-time & lives in Brighton.
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