About the Author

Marguerite Patten OBE wrote over 170 cookery books, sales of which amount to over 16 million worldwide. Her long and distinguished career, which began before the war, 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.Marguerite was one of Britain's best known and loved cookery writers and has often been described as England's Cookery Queen. Ainsley Harriott dubbed her "the cookery icon of our times".

Reviews

"If you only buy one cookery book this year it has to be Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking." Women "Elegantly presented - for those who enjoy a taste for nostalgia or love curious culinary snippets." The Independent