Delia cooks up a treat to mark 40 years
DELIA Smith is to celebrate her 40-year career with a new cookery show, the BBC confirmed yesterday.
The 67-year-old celebrity chef, who started out as a food writer in 1969, will recreate her most popular recipes but using modern ingredients and a modern budget, in a series of half-hour shows on BBC2.
The show has been given the working title 40 Years of Delia.
A BBC spokesman confirmed the show was in the pipeline, saying: “Delia is close to signing up.”
Delia has sparked several culinary trends thanks to her recipes, causing runs on supermarkets for her recommended ingredients, including cranberries and frozen mashed potato.
The BBC said: “Delia has single-handedly changed the nation’s eating habits from roast duck with cherry sauce in the 1960s to freezer favourites in the noughties.”