Marguerite Patten's Century Of British Cooking

Description

This book was Grub Street's lead cookery title for 1999 and was a major publishing event since Marguente Patten is one of Britain's best known and loved cookery writers and often described as England's Cookery Queen. Ainsley Harriott has dubbed her "the cookery icon of our times". Each chapter of the book covers one decade of the century giving both history and recipes. The entire book is illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

Author description

Marguerite Patten OBE has written over 160 cookery books, sales of which amount to over 16 million worldwide. Her long and distinguished career, which began before the war, has included regular appearances on radio and television, live and televised cookery demonstrations, lectures as well as extensive journalism and authorship of books and cookery cards. Her Century of British Cooking pulls together her life's work, with over 200 recipes and is truly an important work of culinary history.