Tag: Prue Leith

TV Review: The New ‘Great British Bake Off’ – Channel 4

August 29, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

Well let me confess straight off that I only watched it because of the wonderful Noel Fielding, who I’ve had a soft spot for for years. I’d grown tired of Bake Off; hadn’t watched the last couple of years on the Beeb where it had grown a little tired and predictable, even with the annual […]

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Cookbooks Aren’t What They Used To Be

August 30, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

‘Fings ain’t wot they used t’be’ goes the old Lionel Bart song for the hit London stage show of the same name in the 1960s about East London Cockney characters. According to that doyenne of cookery writing Prue Leith, cookbooks aren’t what they used to be either. ‘In my day you could still buy a good […]

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