SC - OT: persona development

[Ana L. Valdés]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:24:05 +0200 Alan Jankelowitz
<alanj at mossmorris.co.za> writes:
>So sorry to hear of the passing of Ms Paterson.
>Thanks for letting me know.

You are welcome. Unfortunately I do not have cable and I'm only able to
catch the
show at friends houses. I have collected all of the recipes from the
shows. Many of
them almost seem period.

>How are the Lee's doing.

Sorry, who are the Lee's?

>Regards
>Alan J

Korrin S. DaArdain
Kitchen Steward of Household Port Karr
Kingdom of An Tir in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Korrin.DaArdain at Juno.com





>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Korrin S DaArdain [mailto:korrin.daardain at juno.com]
>Sent:	11 August 1999 09:22
>To:	SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>Subject:	SC - `Two Fat Ladies' cooking star dies at 71
>
>The Associated Press
>08/10/99 3:31 PM Eastern 
>LONDON (AP) -- TV cook Jennifer Paterson, one of the "Two Fat Ladies"
who
>joyfully salted their recipes with political incorrectness, died
Tuesday.
>She was 71. 
>Miss Paterson had been diagnosed with lung cancer and died in London's
>Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. 
>Trying to savor life right to the end, she was more interested in fine
food
>than the traditional gifts for hospital patients. 
>"She didn't see the point of flowers. She'd rather have caviar," friend
and
>co-star Clarissa Dickson Wright said Tuesday. "She was totally larger
than
>life and a constant source of fun." 
>Miss Paterson fell ill in July during filming of "Two Fat Ladies," a
cooking
>show where the colorful chefs were the main course. 
>Perfectly happy to be fat, the women toured the country on Miss
Paterson's
>old Triumph motorcycle -- she in the driving seat and Miss Dickson
Wright,
>in Red Baron-style helmet, squeezed into the sidecar. 
>They went from one cooking job to the next, chortling and trading wry
quips
>about food, love and life and happily loading their food with butter and
>cream. 
>"Jennifer was a life force on the side of all things that were
politically
>incorrect," said BBC broadcast chief executive Will Wyatt. "She came to
>television all too late, but she left some wonderful programs behind,
which
>we will be enjoying for years to come." 
>Miss Dickson Wright once called the program "a cookery show with anarchy
and
>a motorbike." 
>The chain-smoking Miss Paterson, often filmed with a cigarette clamped
>firmly in her mouth, spoke with a ver-r-r-y upper-class accent and
boomed
>out her opinions at will. 
>She wore black-rimmed eyeglasses, vivid nail polish and plenty of makeup
>while she concocted her dishes, which she once described as "domestic
>cooking, not flibbertigibbet restaurant cooking." 
>She had no more time for body facism than for nouvelle cuisine. 
>"It's the last taboo, isn't it -- fat?" she told The Associated Press in
a
>1997 interview. "It's all the fault of the Duchess of Windsor. She came
up
>with that stupid line, `You can never be too rich or too thin.' And
America
>took it to their heart." 
>Miss Paterson was born in London, spent her first four years in China
and
>returned with her family to England, where she attended a Catholic
boarding
>school. 
>She was expelled at age 15 for being disruptive. 
>The nuns, she said, "had to expel me in the end. They claimed it was the
>only way to get the rest of the school to settle down." 
>She got only one more year of schooling before moving to Berlin, where
her
>father had been posted in the army. She went on to teach English in
Portugal
>and later lived in Venice and Sicily. She also spent time in Libya,
where
>she cared for an aunt and uncle's children. 
>"My whole life was one mistake after another because I was totally
>unqualified. I took whatever came along," Miss Paterson said. 
>Cooking seemed natural, though. "I'd always cooked from the age of 4,"
she
>said. 
>In 1952, she returned to London and began working for magazines and
later
>the TV show "Candid Camera." In 1977, she landed the job of cook for The
>Spectator magazine, remaining there for 15 years. 
>It was in 1996 that the BBC teamed her with Miss Dickson Wright. They
barely
>knew each other at the time, but "the first day taping, it was as though
we
>had cooked together all our lives," Miss Dickson Wright said. 
>Their program appears in the United States, both on public television
and on
>cable stations. 
>Miss Paterson never married. She shared a London apartment with her
uncle
>and was also survived by two brothers and their children. 
>A funeral is planned for next week at London's Brompton Oratory.

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