Elizabeth David
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Pferdestarke

Original Poster:

7,192 posts

211 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2009
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I salute you.

Just taken delivery of my first book (French Provincial Cooking) with my second (An Omlette and a glass of wine) on order.

Wonderful.

The way she wrote the recipes is so very different from how we have become accustomed. She leaves very little open to interpretation and gives specifics with good reason every time.

Small wonder why brilliant 'modern day' chefs and cooks quote her so frequently, such as Theo Randall and Simon Hopkinson.

Mobile Chicane

21,826 posts

236 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2009
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She was a nymphomaniac as well (apparently). Top woman thumbup

Melman Giraffe

6,794 posts

242 months

Wednesday 3rd June 2009
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Mobile Chicane said:
She was a nymphomaniac as well (apparently). Top woman thumbup
Sounds like my kinda girl wink