100 years of Elizabeth David
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward discuss the legacy of Elizabeth David 100 years after her birth. The iconic food writer is credited for bringing Mediterranean cooking to post-war Britain.
Sir Terence Conran speaks about Elizabeth David's influence on kitchen design. Her nephew Johnny Grey discusses the shop Elizabeth David opened in Pimlico. And Elizabeth David's editor, Jill Norman, says that today she would not have been published.
Presented by Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward. Produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
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| 1:04.0 | No cook can ignore Elizabeth David. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, she lived the most amazing life and she was our greatest modern cookery writer. |
| 1:17.0 | How elegant she always was. |
| 1:23.0 | Always elegant. |
| 1:25.2 | She never sat incorrectly, she never slouched, she always was absolutely elegant, beautiful elegance. |
| 1:35.0 | Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop. |
| 1:38.0 | Like most food writers, I've loved Elizabeth David's work, |
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