Besides cookery, on which other topic has Delia Smith written books?
"Society. In 1999 she received an Honorary degree from the University of East Anglia and in 2000, a Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University. She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cookery. Smith was baptised in the Church of England, and attended a Methodist Sunday School, a Congregationalist Brownie group and later a Church of England youth group. At the age of twenty-two, she converted to Catholicism. Her first two short religious books, ""A Feast for Lent"" (1983) and ""A Feast for Advent"" (1983), are readings"
"and reflections for these seasons. In 1988, she wrote a longer book on prayer, ""A Journey into God"". Smith is married to Michael Wynn-Jones. Delia Smith Delia Ann Smith (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous. She is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C. Her partner in the shareholding is her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones. In 2012 Smith was among"
"an increase in the sales of tinned meat over the following two years. British television chef Delia Smith's first published book was entitled ""How to Cheat at Cooking"", published in 1971. This was a guide to how to combine off-the-shelf products to reduce the time and effort needed when creating meals at home. She had temporarily retired for five years after the success of her ""How To Cook"" book series. But she sought to re-create her original book in 2008, including reusing the original title, and hoped to enable people to take shortcuts in recipes. Prior to the book's release,"
"How to Cheat at Cooking How to Cheat at Cooking is a cookbook by television chef Delia Smith, published in 2008 by Ebury Publishing. It was her first book following her ""How To Cook"" series, and had a television series based on the same recipes on BBC Two. Following publication, Smith was criticised by other chefs due to the use of certain ingredients such as canned minced lamb, and by nutritionists because of the level of salt in some of the recipes. The book increased the sales of several products, described as the ""Delia Effect"", and has been credited with"
"In 2008 when Delia Smith launched her book ""How to Cheat at Cooking"", some consumers were enraged at the suggestion that tinned mince could be substituted for fresh mince in the recipes. However, it showed consumers the versatility of canned meats and the fact that it could serve as a substitute for fresh meat in recipes – something which appears to have resonated. How to Cheat at Cooking How to Cheat at Cooking is a cookbook by television chef Delia Smith, published in 2008 by Ebury Publishing. It was her first book following her ""How To Cook"" series, and had"
"in the 1970s and early 1980s when she was an occasional guest on the BBC's Saturday morning children's programme ""Multicoloured Swap Shop"", giving basic cooking demonstrations. Her 1995 book ""Delia Smith's The Winter Collection"" sold 2 million copies in hardback, becoming the fifth biggest-selling book of the 1990s. In 2003 Smith announced her retirement from television. However, she returned for an eponymous six-part series airing on the BBC in Spring 2008. The accompanying book, an update of her 1971 best-seller ""How to Cheat at Cooking"", was published in February 2008, again becoming a best-seller. In 2005, Smith announced that she"
"and her use of ingredients such as frozen mash and tinned minced beef and onions, or utensils such as an omelette pan, could cause sell-outs overnight. This phenomenon, dubbed the ""Delia Effect"", was most recently seen in 2008, after her book ""How to Cheat at Cooking"" was published. Her fame has meant that her first name has become sufficient to identify her to the public and the ""Delia Effect"" has become a commonly used phrase to describe a run on a previously poor-selling product as a result of a high-profile recommendation. From 1993 to 1998 Smith worked as a consultant"
"Times bestselling author Dr. Dean Ornish. He edits a monthly article on Oprah.com and contributes articles to ""O, The Oprah Magazine"". His latest cookbook, (released May 2013), Art Smith’s Healthy Comfort, has a focus on healthy cooking and healthy living, (published by Harper One 2013). On October 9, 2015 the Disney Parks Blog confirmed that Chef Smith will be opening a new restaurant (Homecoming: Florida Kitchen and Southern Shine) in the Summer of 2016 at Disney Springs. Smith founded the non-profit charity Common Threads, which focuses on teaching children about different cultures through food and art. Common Threads has served"
"and in more than 40 countries around the world. Smith has authored ten cookbooks to date. His tenth cooking, ""Real Food, Real Good"", launched in September 2016 and immediately landed on the Globe & Mail bestseller list. ""The Best of Chef at Home: Essential Recipes for Today's Kitchen"" was published in the fall of 2009. ""Chef at Home: Cooking With and Without a Recipe"" was released in 2005. His first book, ""Open Kitchen: a Chef's Day at The Inn at Bay Fortune"", took the bronze medal at Cuisine Canada’s Cookbook Award in 1998. He followed that with ""The Inn Chef"""
"Delia Smith Delia Ann Smith (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous. She is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C. Her partner in the shareholding is her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones. In 2012 Smith was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles'"
"a long-running TV show or popular restaurant, become part of extended series of books that can be released over the course of many years. Popular chef-authors throughout history include people such as Delia Smith, Julia Child, James Beard, Nigella Lawson, Edouard de Pomiane, Jeff Smith, Emeril Lagasse, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, Katsuyo Kobayashi, and possibly even Apicius, the semi-pseudonymous author of the Roman cookbook De re coquinaria, who shared a name with at least one other famous food figure of the ancient world. Famous cookbooks from the past, in chronological order, include: Several libraries have extensive collections of cookbooks. Some"
"was supporting the Labour Party in the forthcoming election. In 2010 she appeared in a five-episode series, ""Delia through the Decades"", with each episode exploring a new decade of her cooking. In March 2010, Smith and Heston Blumenthal were signed up to appear in a series of 40 commercials on British television for the supermarket chain Waitrose. In February 2013 she announced that she had retired from television cookery programmes, and would concentrate on offering her recipes online. It has been claimed that Smith's television series ""Delia's How to Cook"" led to a 10% rise in egg sales in Britain"
"tips on preparation and saving time, sold 300,000 copies in the UK. ""The Sunday Telegraph"" dubbed it ""the most valuable culinary guide published this decade."" Its successor, ""How to be a Domestic Goddess"" (2000), focuses primarily on baking. Of this second bestseller, ""The Times"" wrote of Lawson's book, that it ""is defined by its intimate, companionable approach. She is not issuing matronly instructions like Delia; she is merely making sisterly suggestions"". Lawson rejected feminist criticism of her book, adding that ""[s]ome people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like"
"Deborah Smith Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 35 novels in romance and women's fiction. Her books include 21 series romances under her real name and under two pen names (Jackie Leigh and Jacquelyn Lennox). Her bigger novels include ""Miracle"", ""Blue Willow"", ""Silk and Stone"", ""A Place To Call Home"", ""When Venus Fell"", ""On Bear Mountain"", ""Charming Grace"", ""Sweet Hush"", ""The Stone Flower Garden"", ""Alice at Heart"", ""Diary of a Radical Mermaid"", ""The Crossroads Cafe"", ""A Gentle Rain"", and ""Solomon's Seal: Discovery"". ""A Gentle Rain"" was a Romance Writers of America RITA finalist in"
"In June 2013 the Crown and Castle Hotel regained a 5 rating for food hygiene. Watson's hotel experience brought her to the eye of various publishers, and was asked in 1994 by friend Delia Smith to be a contributing food editor on ""Sainsbury's Magazine"". Watson subsequently became food editor of the ""Daily Mail Weekend"" magazine, for which she was shortlisted for a Glenfiddich Award as newspaper cookery writer in 2001, and won twice as Cookery Writer of the year – in 1997 and 2000. Watson has written three books: the ""Really Helpful Cookbook"" published in October 2000 by Ebury Press;"
"Freda Love Smith Freda Love Smith (born Freda Boner, later used the stage name Freda Love) is an American musician, journalist, and non-fiction author. Smith is known as a drummer and vocalist for several alternative rock bands, including the Blake Babies, Antenna, Mysteries of Life, Some Girls and Sunshine Boys. She is the author of ""Red Velvet Underground"", a memoir and cookbook published in 2015. Smith attended Indiana University where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in general studies. She also earned a master of arts degree from Nottingham Trent University in creative writing. Smith is a lecturer and"
"""O, the Oprah Magazine"", ""Food Arts"", ""Martha Stewart Living"", and ""The New York Times"". After some years owning and operating successful design businesses, she turned to food, earning a professional degree from The Institute of Culinary Education in 1991. In 1992, she established her own gourmet baking business, selling to several New York City eateries including Dean & DeLuca, Felissimo and Petrossian. She then published her first cookbooks, ""Perfect Picnics for All Seasons"" and ""Some Like It Hot"", a cookbook inspired by the movie of the same name. Her more recent works include the highly acclaimed ""Lost Desserts"" and ""The"
"expert on ""Humanae Vitae"" and on Pope John Paul II's teaching on marriage and family life (""Theology of the Body""). She is a popular public speaker about Catholic teaching on sexuality and on bioethics. She has appeared on the ""Geraldo"" show, Fox News, CNN International, CNN Newsroom, and Al Jazeera and has appeared in many shows for various series on EWTN. Smith's work has been published in ""The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly"", ""Catholic Dossier"", ""The Irish Theological Quarterly"", ""The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly"", ""Nova et Vetera"", ""The Thomist"", and other publications. More than two million copies of her talk, ""Contraception:"
"TV cook Delia Smith, wildlife titles by Sir David Attenborough and gardening titles by Alan Titchmarsh. In the BBC Publishing days, it turned down ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide. Since 1996, BBC Books has also produced a range of tie-in novels connected to the television science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"", the only full-length fiction to be printed by the company. Their first release related to the series was a novelisation of the 1996 ""Doctor Who"" telemovie published in the spring of 1996. Then, in 1997, BBC Books launched two concurrent"
"provide advice for members of the public. She went on to use zombies to demonstrate how diseases were spread. Smith has written books on Ebola virus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus agalactiae. Smith takes part in several initiatives to improve the public understanding of science. She has been writing the popular science blog Aetiology since 2005, and was one of the first scientists to start blogging. Her research has appeared in the popular science books ""Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat"" and ""Superbug: the Fatal Menace of MRSA."" She has featured on podcasts, including Science for the People, Talk"
"it was predicted that the ""Delia effect"" would repeat itself on some of the items mentioned in the book. This is where an ingredient or item mentioned by Smith would increase dramatically in sales – it had occurred in 2001 after she promoted cranberries, and additional sales of 54 million eggs have been credited to the chef after she demonstrated how to boil them on a television show. The media attempted to predict what items might see the effect occur prior to the release of the book; these suggestions included pasta by Fratelli Camisa, spice blends by a company called"
"the New Testament, accompanied by Sister Wendy's reflections. Her next book, published in 2011, ""The Christ Journey"", consists of her commentaries on the artwork of Greg Tricker. When Beckett required medical treatment as an outpatient at a local hospital, the television chef Delia Smith, a Roman Catholic convert, volunteered, through a mutual friend, to drive her there each week. Smith also drove her around the country to meet the artists when Beckett was writing her book about contemporary women artists. Through this the two became good friends. Having overheard her commentary while attending an art exhibit, a film crew asked"
"with special feature packages and single-topic issues—from The World of Butter (March 2008) to The Glories of Greece (August 2010)—each of which tackled a single theme in depth. These themed packages and issues included not only recipes and techniques, but also multiple narratives, providing diverse perspectives on each topic of focus. Celebrated essayists, novelists, comedians, and other storytellers have turned to the subject of food in the pages of ""Saveur"": In the magazine’s October 2010 25 Great Meals issue, Rita Mae Brown wrote of a meal she shared with her grandfather's hunting dogs; Dean Koontz, about sharing sandwiches with his"
"Christianity. ""I have known no other father but these fathers, the priests of the Church, no brothers but my own dear brothers, the theology students. No mother but the Church...I loved them all and clung to them, not only as a daughter and sister, but as a Japanese daughter and sister, in the intensity of unconditional submission which belongs to Japanese filial piety. "" Görres is best known in the English speaking world for her 1944 study of Thérèse of Lisieux ""Das Verborgene Antlitz"" - translated as ""The Hidden Face"". The British cookery writer and celebrity chef Delia Smith named"
"show, ""B. Smith With Style"", aired on weekdays on BTN and Bounce TV, featuring home decor and cooking segments. B. Smith authored three books concentrating on recipes and presentation: ""B. Smith's Entertaining and Cooking for Friends"" (1995), ""B. Smith's Rituals and Celebrations"" (1999), and ""B. Smith Cooks Southern Style"" (2009). Smith and her husband released ""Before I Forget"" in early 2016, detailing their journey following her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's. The book was written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson. Smith has been married twice. Her first marriage was to former HBO executive Donald Anderson. Smith married her current"
"director. During this time, he wrote his first cookbook—""Dean & DeLuca, The Food and Wine Cookbook"" (Chronicle Books 2002). He has written an additional 7 cookbooks since, collaborating with his wife, Jodie Morgan, on winery and restaurant cookbooks for Domaine Chandon, PlumpJack, Ruby Tuesday and Coopers Hawk. Other books include ""The Working Parents Cookbook"", and ""Rosé, A Guide to the World’s Most Versatile Wine"" (both with Chronicle Books). Most recently, Morgan and his wife published ""The Covenant Kitchen: Food and Wine for the New Jewish Table"" (Schocken Books, 2015). In 2003, Leslie Rudd, owner of vineyard land in Napa and"
"some have achieved this through success in the kitchen, publications and achieving such awards as Michelin stars while others are home cooks. Celebrity chefs can also massively influence cuisines across countries, with foreign cuisines being introduced in their natural forms for the first time due to the work of the chef to inform their viewers. Sales of certain foodstuffs can also be enhanced, such as when Delia Smith caused the sale of white eggs across the UK to increase by 10% in what has since been termed the ""Delia effect"". Endorsements are also to be expected from a celebrity chef,"
"""Fruits of Longing"" featuring recipes for figs, quinces, pomegranates and dates, and ""The Spice Trail"" using cardamom, chili, cinnamon, cumin, ginger, coriander, pimenton and saffron. Since then, she has published eight further cookery books. She also writes a cookery column in ""Stella"" magazine in the ""Sunday Telegraph"", for which she was named the Fortnum and Mason cookery writer of the year (2013) and won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year Award (2015) and the Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year (2015). She has also spoken about food on BBC Radio 4 ""Woman's Hour"","
"own and cared for dozens of foster children, including one whom they reared from age 12 to adulthood. After the author's youngest child entered public school, Smith began to focus on her writing, joining a writers group and attending writers conferences while honing her craft. Smith's first completed novel was never published, but her second, ""A Taste of Blackberries"", became a children's classic, which has remained in print since 1973. Smith's marriage ended in divorce in 1977. She remained single until meeting her second husband, Dr. William J. ""Bill"" Curtis, an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Colorado"
"in Raleigh, where she taught for many years. In 1983 her fifth novel, ""Oral History"", became a Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection, exposing Smith for the first time to a wide national audience. In 1985 she published ""Family Linen"". That same year Smith - who was by then divorced from Seay - married journalist Hal Crowther, to whom she dedicated the new book. Since then, Smith has published ""Fair and Tender Ladies"" (1988) and ""Me and My Baby View the Eclipse"" (1990), her second book of short stories. In 1992 she published ""The Devil's Dream"", a generational saga about a family"
"undergraduate advisor for the Northwestern University Department of Radio/Television/Film. Freda Love Smith Freda Love Smith (born Freda Boner, later used the stage name Freda Love) is an American musician, journalist, and non-fiction author. Smith is known as a drummer and vocalist for several alternative rock bands, including the Blake Babies, Antenna, Mysteries of Life, Some Girls and Sunshine Boys. She is the author of ""Red Velvet Underground"", a memoir and cookbook published in 2015. Smith attended Indiana University where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in general studies. She also earned a master of arts degree from Nottingham Trent"
"a subsequent ""Penguin 60"" series, consisting of 64 small-format pages, with text drawn from ""Italian Food"" and others of David's books. Terence Conran commented shortly after its release that the little book had immediately gone into the British top ten list of best-selling cookery books, alongside Delia Smith's ""Summer Collection"". Among the projects of David's later years with which she worked with her editor, Jill Norman, was a single-volume collection of the best of her extensive writings. When David's health deteriorated, the project was shelved. In 1996, Norman revived it, and invited chefs, writers and David's friends to choose their"
"with a mini version entitled ""Easy Pies"" later released. Her second book, ""Soups and Stews"", was published by Collins in October 2008 and a further cookery book is in the pipeline. She has written food & entertaining stories for many UK titles including ""InStyle"" and ""Living"", etc., and for the last two years has been a contributing editor to Junior magazine. In March 2006, Conran's kitchen, glass and tableware range for Portmeirion launched nationwide in the UK. It received an ""Elle"" Deco Style Award for Best in Kitchens 2006 and the ""House Beautiful"" Award for Best in Tableware in 2008."