Article: Delia Smith's cooking is the missionary position of food; EGON JOINS ROW OVER TV SHOWS.(News)

THE world of cooking was having a pot-boiler of a row last night as Egon Ronay and Gary Rhodes delivered their verdicts on Delia Smith's new back to basics TV series.

Celebrity critic Ronay called Delia's dishes - including the exquisitely- timed boiled egg and the perfect piece of toast - "the missionary position of cooking".

Ronay was responding to a withering attack on Delia by Rhodes, who branded her BBC2 How To Cook shows as "insulting and offensive". When the series was launched on October 13, Delia said it aimed ...

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