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Article: Delia Smith helps egg farmer win case
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 28, 1998
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AN EGG farmer who won a court battle over Brussels red tape paid
tribute yesterday to the television cook Delia Smith.
Martin Pitt was accused by the Ministry of Agriculture of breaking
EU rules by labelling eggs laid on his farm near Marlborough,
Wiltshire, with the period they were laid instead of their use-by
dates.
But armed with a copy of Delia Smith's How to Cook, he managed to
persuade magistrates he was not guilty.
After unscrambling the complex ...