Marguerite Patten is one of Britain's best known and best loved cookery
writers. She is the author of over 170 books and numerous newspaper and
magazine articles. Her Cookery in Colour was first published in 1960 and
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' and in addition she received Lifetime Achievement Awards in
1995 from the Guild of Food Writers, in 1996 from the Trustees of the
André Simon Award, in 1998 from the BBC Good Food Awards and 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 favorite recipes
showing the enormous and exciting variety of British produce and
cooking. She covers soups, fish dishes, meat, poultry and game,
vegetables, salads and savory dishes as well as puddings, baking and
preserves. Marguerite Patten's career spans more than half a century and
began before World War II working for the Ministry of Food. She had a
weekly television program in the early days of broadcasting in the late
1940s and throughout the 1950s. Since then she has lectured, given
countless thousands of demonstrations and written articles and cookery
cards and many, many successful books. She will celebrate her 94th
birthday this year but still works full-time and lives in Brighton.
