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Article: Profile Delia Smith: Simmer gently. Do not boil
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 11, 1999
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Life Story
Born: 18 June 1941, at the Wynberg Emergency Maternity Hospital in
Woking, Surrey.
Family: Father, Harold Bartlett Smith, an RAF wireless operator.
Mother, Etty Jones Lewis.
Education: Upland Nursery School, Bexleyheath; then Bexleyheath
School, a secondary modern school she attended after failing her 11-
plus, and left with no qualifications.
Family: Married to journalist Michael Wynn Jones, 11 September
1971 at the Catholic Church of Our Lady in Stowmarket, Suffolk. No
children.
Publications: Cookery writer, began at The Mirror Magazine in
1969. (First menu: kipper pate, beef in beer and cheesecake). Evening
Standard cookery writer, 1972-85. First book: `How to Cheat at ...