SC - `Two Fat Ladies' cooking star dies at 71

[Alan Jankelowitz]

So sorry to hear of the passing of Ms Paterson.
Thanks for letting me know.
How are the Lee's doing.
Regards
Alan J

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

	
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