Sunday, 1 June 2008
Delia Smith
Many of Delia Smith's recipes and television shows have avoided the complicated and focussed on good basic cooking. Her television series for BBC followed a similar theme. Shows and books including her Cookery Course, Delia Smith's Summer Collection, Delia Smith's Winter Collection and in 1998, her How to Cook relied on simple ingredients and basic cookery techniques.Reportedly Delia's How to Cook led to a 10% increase in egg sales!
Delia Smith is also famous for her love of the Canaries. She is a director of Norwich City FC.
In the 2004/5 season Delia Smith attracted attention when at half time in the Norwich City v. Manchester City game she took the microphone and urged the crowd to "let's be having you", telling the Norwich supporters they were the team's 12th man which was just as well as Norwich had a man sent off in the second half!
In December 2004, Delia announced that she was quitting her television cookery shows "while the going is good". She told chat show host, Jonathan Ross:
"Now people want to be entertained, whereas I was trying to teach how to cook, that's where it's different."
In 2008, Delia Smith published Delia's How To Cheat At Cooking, her first book in four years.
In February 2008, around the publication of Delia's How To Cheat At Cooking, Delia Smith told The Times:
"We must try to find a way of educating people if they don't have the money on how to give their children the protein they need. We can't just say, 'buy organic', when people can't afford it. We have got to be able to give people alternatives. There is enough means to feed the planet but two thirds of the world lives below the poverty line."