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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.

Eleanor Margesson

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.