Is her controversial book How to Cheat at Cooking professional suicide? Or does Delia know more about our cooking habits than we are ready to confess? Eleanor wonders if she’ll need to bother putting her apron on.
For those like me learning to cook in the 1980s and 90s, Delia was our guiding light. Moving us on from Mrs. Beeton, her Complete Cookery Course could be used to look up any dish and follow simple instructions to obtain a decent result.
‘Doing a Delia’ became a standard no-fuss approach to a dinner party, with the shared and comforting knowledge around a delicious meal that, quite frankly, this success could have been anybody’s.
