TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine
She was one of the first TV celebrity chefs, Rude, snobbish, and short-tempered, she was reviled, relished and admired in equal measure. She berated Thatcher for wearing 'cheap shoes and clothes', wrote off Eamonn Andrews as a 'blundering amateur', was forced to apologise for insulting another TV cook, her programmes - which she presented in evening gown, drop ear-rings, pearls, and thick make-up, booming orders to Johnnie, a gentle, monocled stooge...