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paragraph: Elizabeth David

paragraph: Elizabeth David, CBE (born Elizabeth Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer. In the mid-20th century she strongly influenced the revitalisation of home cookery in her native country and beyond with articles and books about European cuisines and traditional British dishes.

paragraph: Born to an upper-class family, David rebelled against social norms of the day. In the 1930s she studied art in Paris, became an actress, and ran off with a married man with whom she sailed in a small boat to Italy, where their boat was confiscated. They reached Greece, where they were nearly trapped by the German invasion in 1941, but escaped to Egypt, where they parted. She then worked for the British government, running a library in Cairo. While there she married, but she and her husband separated soon after and subsequently divorced.

paragraph: In 1946 David returned to England, where food rationing imposed during the Second World War remained in force. Dismayed by the contrast between the bad food served in Britain and the simple, excellent food to which she had become accustomed in France, Greece and Egypt, she began to write magazine articles about Mediterranean cooking. They attracted favourable attention, and in 1950, at the age of 36, she published "A Book of Mediterranean Food". Her recipes called for ingredients such as aubergines, basil, figs, garlic, olive oil and saffron, which at the time were scarcely available in Britain. Books on French, Italian and, later, English cuisine followed. By the 1960s David was a major influence on British cooking. She was deeply hostile to anything second-rate, and to over-elaborate cooking and bogus substitutes for classic dishes and ingredients. In 1965 she opened a shop selling kitchen equipment, which continued to trade under her name after she left it in 1973.

paragraph: David's reputation rests on her articles and her books, which have been continually reprinted. Between 1950 and 1984 she published eight books; after her death her literary executor completed a further four that she had planned and worked on. David's influence on British cooking extended to professional as well as domestic cooks, and chefs and restaurateurs of later generations such as Terence Conran, Simon Hopkinson, Prue Leith, Jamie Oliver, Tom Parker Bowles and Rick Stein have acknowledged her importance to them. In the US, cooks and writers including Julia Child, Richard Olney and Alice Waters have written of her influence.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Early years.

paragraph: David was born Elizabeth Gwynne, the second of four children, all daughters, of Rupert Sackville Gwynne and his wife, the Hon Stella Gwynne, daughter of the 1st Viscount Ridley. Both parents' families had considerable fortunes, the Gwynnes from engineering and land speculation and the Ridleys from coal mining. Through the two families, David was of English, Scottish and Welsh or Irish descent and, through an ancestor on her father's side, also Dutch and Sumatran. She and her sisters grew up at Wootton Manor in Sussex, a seventeenth-century manor house with extensive, early twentieth-century additions by Detmar Blow. Her father, despite having a weak heart, insisted on pursuing a demanding political career, becoming Conservative MP for Eastbourne, and a junior minister in Bonar Law's government. Overwork, combined with his vigorous recreational pastimes, chiefly racing, riding, and womanising, brought about his death in 1924, aged 51.

paragraph: The widowed Stella Gwynne was a dutiful mother, but her relations with her daughters were distant rather than affectionate. Elizabeth and her sisters, Priscilla, Diana and Felicité were sent away to boarding schools. Having been a pupil at Godstowe preparatory school in High Wycombe, Elizabeth was sent to St Clare's Private School for Ladies, Tunbridge Wells, which she left at the age of sixteen. The girls grew up knowing nothing of cooking, which in upper-class households of the time was the exclusive province of the family's cook and her kitchen staff.

paragraph: As a teenager David enjoyed painting, and her mother thought her talent worth developing. In 1930 she was sent to Paris, where she studied painting privately and enrolled at the Sorbonne for a course in French civilisation which covered history, literature and architecture. She found her Sorbonne studies arduous and in many ways uninspiring, but they left her with a love of French literature and a fluency in the language that remained with her throughout her life. She lodged with a Parisian family, whose fanatical devotion to the pleasures of the table she portrayed to comic effect in her "French Provincial Cooking" (1960). Nevertheless, she acknowledged in retrospect that the experience had been the most valuable part of her time in Paris: "I realized in what way the family had fulfilled their task of instilling French culture into at least one of their British charges. Forgotten were the Sorbonne professors. ... What had stuck was the taste for a kind of food quite ideally unlike anything I had known before." Stella Gwynne was not eager for her daughter's early return to England after qualifying for her Sorbonne diploma, and sent her from Paris to Munich in 1931 to study German.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Actress.

paragraph: After returning to England in 1932 David unenthusiastically went through the social rituals for upper-class young women of presentation at court as a débutante and the associated balls. The respectable young Englishmen she met at the latter did not appeal to her. David's biographer Lisa Chaney comments that with her "delicately smouldering looks and her shyness shielded by a steely coolness and barbed tongue" she would have been a daunting prospect for the young upper-class men she encountered. David decided that she was not good enough as a painter and, to her mother's displeasure, became an actress. She joined J. B. Fagan's company at the Oxford Playhouse in 1933. Her fellow performers included Joan Hickson, who decades later recalled having to show her new colleague how to make a cup of tea, so unaware of the kitchen was David in those days.

paragraph: From Oxford, David moved to the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London, the following year. She rented rooms in a large house near the park, spent a generous 21st birthday present on equipping the kitchen, and learned to cook. A gift from her mother of "The Gentle Art of Cookery" by Hilda Leyel was her first cookery book. She later wrote, "I wonder if I would have ever learned to cook at all if I had been given a routine Mrs Beeton to learn from, instead of the romantic Mrs Leyel with her rather wild, imagination-catching recipes."

paragraph: At Regent's Park David made little professional progress. The company was distinguished, headed by Nigel Playfair and Jack Hawkins, and, in the leading female roles, Anna Neagle and Margaretta Scott. David was restricted to bit parts. Among her colleagues in the company was an actor nine years her senior, Charles Gibson Cowan. His disregard for social conventions appealed strongly to her, and she also found him sexually irresistible. His being married did not daunt either of them, and they began an affair that outlasted her stage career. Chaney comments, "Cowan was the ultimate outsider. He was working class, left wing, Jewish, an actor, a pickpocket, a vagabond, who lived in caves in Hastings for a time. Her mother called him a 'pacifist worm'. He was a sexual presence, and slept with anything that moved." David's mother strongly disapproved, and tried to put a stop to the affair. She arranged for her daughter to spend several weeks holidaying with family and friends in Malta in the first half of 1936 and in Egypt later in the same year, but in her 1999 biography Artemis Cooper comments that David's lengthy absence failed to detach her from her involvement with Cowan. During her stay in Malta, David was able to spend time learning from her hostess's cook, Angela, who was happy to pass on her expertise. Although she could produce elaborate grand dinners when required, the most important lesson she taught David was to work day in, day out, with all available ingredients, showing her how to make an old bird or a stringy piece of meat into a good dish.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:France, Greece, Egypt and India.

paragraph: After her return to London in early 1937, David recognised that she was not going to be a success on the stage, and abandoned thoughts of a theatrical career. Later in the year she took a post as a junior assistant at the fashion house of Worth, where elegant young women from upper-class backgrounds were sought after as recruits. She found the subservience of retail work irksome, and resigned in early 1938. Over the next few months she spent time holidaying in the south of France and on Corsica, where she was greatly taken with the outgoing nature of the people she stayed with and the simple excellence of their food. After returning to London, and disenchanted with life there, she joined Cowan in buying a small boat—a yawl with an engine—with the intention of sailing it to Greece. They crossed the Channel in July 1939 and navigated the boat through the canal system of France to the Mediterranean coast.

paragraph: The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 halted their progress. After stopping briefly at Marseille they sailed on to Antibes, where they remained for more than six months, unable to gain permission to leave. There David met and became greatly influenced by the ageing writer Norman Douglas, about whom she later wrote extensively. He inspired her love of the Mediterranean, encouraged her interest in good food, and taught her to "search out the best, insist on it, and reject all that was bogus and second-rate". Cooper describes him as David's most important mentor.

paragraph: David and Cowan finally left Antibes in May 1940, sailing to Corsica and then towards Sicily. They had reached the Strait of Messina when Italy entered the war on 10 June. They were suspected of spying and were interned. After 19 days in custody in various parts of Italy, they were allowed to cross the border into Yugoslavia, which at that point remained neutral and non-combatant. They had lost almost everything they owned—the boat, money, manuscripts, notebooks, and David's cherished collection of recipes. With the help of the British Consul in Zagreb, they crossed into Greece, and arrived in Athens in July 1940. By this time, David was no longer in love with her partner but remained with him from necessity. Cowan found a job teaching English on the island of Syros, where David learnt to cook with the fresh ingredients available locally. When the Germans invaded Greece in April 1941, the couple managed to leave on a civilian convoy to Egypt.

paragraph: Able to speak excellent French and good German, David secured a job in the naval cipher office in Alexandria. She was quickly rescued from temporary refugee accommodation, having met an old English friend who had an "absurdly grandiose" flat in the city and invited her to keep house for him. She and Cowan amicably went their separate ways, and she moved into the grand flat. She engaged a cook, Kyriacou, a Greek refugee, whose eccentricities (sketched in a chapter of "Is There a Nutmeg in the House?") did not prevent him from producing magnificent food: "The flavour of that octopus stew, the rich wine dark sauce and the aroma of mountain herbs was something not easily forgotten." In 1942 she caught an infection that affected her feet. She spent some weeks in hospital and felt obliged to give up her job in the cipher office. She then moved to Cairo, where she was asked to set up and run a reference library for the British Ministry of Information. The library was open to everyone and was much in demand by journalists and other writers. Her circle of friends in this period included Alan Moorehead, Freya Stark, Bernard Spencer, Patrick Kinross, Olivia Manning and Lawrence Durrell. At her tiny flat in the city, she employed Suleiman, a Sudanese "suffragi" (a cook-housekeeper). She recalled:

paragraph: Cooper comments on this period of David's life, "Pictures of her at the time show a quintessential librarian, dressed in a dark cardigan over a white shirt with a prim little collar buttoned up to the neck: but at night, dressed in exotic spangled caftans, she was a different creature: drinking at Hedjaki's bar, eating at the P'tit Coin de France, dancing on the roof of the Continental and then going on to Madame Badia's nightclub or the glamorous Auberge des Pyramides." In her years in Cairo, David had a number of affairs. She enjoyed them for what they were, but only once fell in love. That was with a young officer, Peter Laing, but the relationship came to an end when he was seriously wounded and returned to his native Canada. Several other of her young men fell in love with her; one of them was Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony David (1911–1967). By now aged thirty, she weighed the advantages and disadvantages of remaining unmarried until such time as the ideal husband might appear, and with considerable misgivings she finally accepted Tony David's proposal of marriage.

paragraph: The couple were married in Cairo on 30 August 1944. Within a year, Tony David was posted to India. His wife followed him there in January 1946, but she found life as the wife of an officer of the British Raj tedious, the social life dull, and the food generally "frustrating". Later in life she came to appreciate the cuisine more, and wrote about a few Indian dishes and recipes in her articles and books. In June 1946, she suffered severe sinusitis and was told by her doctors that the condition would persist if she remained in the summer heat of Delhi. Instead, she was advised to go back to England. She did so; Cooper observes, "She had been away from England for six years, and in that time she, and England, had changed beyond recognition."

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Post-war England.

paragraph: Returning after her years of Mediterranean warmth and access to a profusion of fresh ingredients, David found her native country in the post-war period grey and daunting, with food rationing still in force. She encountered terrible food: "There was flour and water soup seasoned solely with pepper; bread and gristle rissoles; dehydrated onions and carrots; corned beef toad in the hole. I need not go on." In London, she met George Lassalle, a former lover of hers from Cairo days, and their affair was rekindled. The couple went to Ross-on-Wye in November 1946 for a week's break, but were stranded in the town by the season's inclement weather. Frustrated by the poor food provided by the hotel, she was encouraged by Lassalle to put her thoughts on paper.

paragraph: Hardly knowing what I was doing ... I sat down and started to work out an agonized craving for the sun and a furious revolt against that terrible cheerless, heartless food by writing down descriptions of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking. Even to write words like apricot, olives and butter, rice and lemons, oil and almonds, produced assuagement. Later I came to realize that in the England of 1947, those were dirty words I was putting down.

paragraph: When her husband returned from India in 1947, David immediately separated from Lassalle and resumed the role of wife. With the aid of Stella Gwynne, David and her husband bought a house in Chelsea, which remained her home for the rest of her life. Tony David proved ineffectual in civilian life, unable to find a suitable job; he ran up debts, partly from a failed business venture. What remained of the spark in the relationship soon died, and they were living separately by 1948.

paragraph: Veronica Nicholson, a friend with connections in the publishing trade, persuaded David to continue writing, with the aim that she write a book. She showed some of David's work to Anne Scott-James, the editor of the British edition of "Harper's Bazaar", who thought the writing showed a widely travelled person with an independent mind. She offered David a contract, and David's work began appearing in the publication from March 1949.

paragraph: David told Scott-James that she planned to publish the articles as a book, and was allowed to retain the copyright by the magazine. Even before all the articles had been published, she had assembled them into a typescript volume called "A Book of Mediterranean Food"; many of the recipes ignored the restrictions of rationing in favour of authenticity, and in several cases the ingredients were not available in British shops. David submitted her manuscript to a series of publishers, all of whom turned it down. One of them explained that a collection of unconnected recipes needed linking text. David took this advice, but conscious of her inexperience as a writer she kept her own prose short and quoted extensively from established authors whose views on the Mediterranean might carry more weight. She submitted the revised typescript to John Lehmann, a publisher more associated with poetry than cookery; he accepted it and agreed to an advance payment of £100. "A Book of Mediterranean Food" was published in June 1950.

paragraph: "A Book of Mediterranean Food" was illustrated by John Minton; writers including Cyril Ray and John Arlott commented that the drawings added to the attractions of the book. Martin Salisbury, the professor of illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, writes that Minton's "brilliant, neo-romantic designs perfectly complement the writing". David placed great importance on the illustration of books, and described Minton's jacket design as "stunning". She was especially taken with "his beautiful Mediterranean bay, his tables spread with white cloths and bright fruit" and the way that "pitchers and jugs and bottles of wine could be seen far down the street"; she considered the cover design aided the success of the book, but was less convinced by his black and white drawings.

paragraph: The book was well received by reviewers. Elizabeth Nicholas, writing for "The Sunday Times", thought David a "gastronome of rare integrity" who "refuses ... to make any ignoble compromises with expediency". Although John Chandos, writing in "The Observer", pointed out that "Let no one eating in London—with whatever abandon—imagine that he is eating Mediterranean food in the absence of Mediterranean earth and air", he finished his review by saying that the book "deserves to become the familiar companion of all who seek uninhibited excitement in the kitchen".

paragraph: The success of the book led to offers of work from "The Sunday Times"—for which she was paid an advance of 60 guineas—"Go", a travel magazine owned by the newspaper, and "Wine and Food", the journal of the Wine and Food Society. In August 1950 David and her husband went on their final holiday together with the money from the new contracts, although they had trouble with the car they were using for touring and the holiday was unsuccessful. On her return she invited Felicité, her youngest sister, to move into the top flat in her house. David was a reluctant and unskilful typist—she preferred the feel of writing with a pen—and in exchange for a low rent, Felicité expertly typed her articles and books, and later acted as her principal researcher.

paragraph: "A Book of Mediterranean Food" was successful enough for Lehmann to commission David to write a sequel, to show the dishes of rural France. This was "French Country Cooking", which David finished writing in October 1950. Minton was employed to illustrate the work, and David gave him detailed instructions about the type of drawings; she was more pleased with them than those for her first work. Despite their difficult relationship, David dedicated the book to her mother. Before the book was published, David left England to live for a short time in France. She was motivated by a desire to gain a wider knowledge of life in the French countryside, and to put distance between her and her husband. She left London in March 1951 for Ménerbes, Provence. She spent three months in Provence; although the weather was initially cold and wet, it soon turned warmer and she enjoyed herself so much that she considered buying a house there. In June 1951 she left Ménerbes and travelled to the island of Capri to visit Norman Douglas. When she left in late August, she toured briefly around the Italian Riviera researching for an article for "Go", before returning to London.

paragraph: In September, shortly after her return, "French Country Cooking" was published. It was warmly reviewed by critics, although Lucie Marion, writing in "The Manchester Guardian", considered that "I cannot think that Mrs David has tried actually to make many of the dishes for which she gives recipes". David wrote to the paper to set the record straight, saying that it would have been "irresponsible and mischievous" if she had not tested them all.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Italian, French and other cuisines.

paragraph: Lehmann and David agreed that her next book should be about Italian food; at the time, little was known in Britain about Italian cuisine and interest in the country was on the rise. She received an advance of £300 for the book. She planned to visit Italy for research, and wanted to see Douglas in Capri again, but received news of his death in February 1952, which left her deeply saddened.

paragraph: David left London in March, arriving in Rome just before the Easter celebrations. She toured the country, watching cooks at home and in restaurants and making extensive notes on the regional differences in the cuisine. While in Rome she met the painter Renato Guttuso; deeply impressed by his work, particularly his still lifes, she asked if he would illustrate her book. To her surprise he agreed and, while considering the fee of £60 absurdly low, he kept to his word and produced a series of illustrations.

paragraph: Arriving back in London in October 1952, David began a relationship with an old flame from India, Peter Higgins, a divorced stockbroker; it was the beginning of the happiest period of her life. She spent the following months writing the book, recreating the recipes to work out the correct measurements. She felt less emotionally connected to Italy than with Greece and southern France and found the writing "uncommonly troublesome", although "as recipe after recipe came out ... I realized how much I was learning, and how enormously these dishes were enlarging my own scope and enjoyment". "Italian Food" was published in November 1954. At the time, many of the ingredients used in the recipes were still difficult to obtain in Britain. Looking back in 1963, David wrote:

paragraph: In Soho but almost nowhere else, such things as Italian "pasta", and Parmesan cheese, olive oil, "salame", and occasionally Parma ham were to be had. ... With southern vegetables such as aubergines, red and green peppers, fennel, the tiny marrows called by the French "courgettes" and in Italy "zucchini", much the same situation prevailed.

paragraph: "Italian Food" was warmly received by reviewers and the public, and the first print run sold out within three weeks. "The Times Literary Supplement"'s reviewer wrote, "More than a collection of recipes, this book is in effect a readable and discerning dissertation on Italian food and regional dishes, and their preparation in the English kitchen." Freya Stark, reviewing for "The Observer", remarked, "Mrs David ... may be counted among the benefactors of humanity." In "The Sunday Times", Evelyn Waugh named "Italian Food" as one of the two books that had given him the most pleasure in 1954.

paragraph: By the time she completed "Italian Food", Lehmann's publishing firm had been closed down by its parent company, and David found herself under contract to Macdonald, another imprint within the same group. She intensely disliked the company and wrote a most unflattering portrait of it in a 1985 article. Disapproving of the approach to her books that the company took, her agent, Paul Scott, persuaded Macdonald to relinquish their option on the next book. David signed instead with the publisher Museum Press for her next book, "Summer Cooking", which was published in 1955.

paragraph: "Summer Cooking" was illustrated by David's friend, the artist Adrian Daintrey. He would visit her at home and sketch her in the kitchen while she cooked a lunch for them both. Unconstrained by the geographical agendas of her first three books, David wrote about dishes from Britain, India, Mauritius, Russia, Spain and Turkey, as well as France, Italy and Greece. The book reflected her strong belief in eating food in season; she loved "the pleasure of rediscovering each season's vegetables" and thought it "rather dull to eat the same food all year round". She said that her aim was to put:

paragraph: emphasis on two aspects of cookery which are increasingly disregarded: the suitability of certain foods to certain times of the year, and the pleasures of eating the vegetables, fruits, poultry, meat or fish which is in season, therefore at its best, most plentiful, and cheapest.

paragraph: Soon after the publication of "Summer Cooking", David was wooed away from her regular column in "Harper"s by "Vogue" magazine, which offered her more money and more prominence—a full central page with a continuing column following, and a full page photograph. The new contract meant she also wrote for "Vogue"s sister magazine "House & Garden". Audrey Withers, the editor of "Vogue", wanted David to write more personal columns than she had done for "Harper's", and paid her £20 a month for food ingredients and from time to time £100 for research trips to France.

paragraph: David visited several areas of France, completing her research for her next book, "French Provincial Cooking", which was "the culmination and synthesis of a decade of work and thought". Published in 1960, it is, according to Cooper in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", the book for which she would be best remembered. David's agent negotiated contracts with a new publisher, Michael Joseph, and a new illustrator, Juliet Renny.

paragraph: Reviews of the new book were as complimentary as those for its predecessors. "The Times Literary Supplement" wrote, ""French Provincial Cooking" needs to be read rather than referred to quickly. It discourses at some length on the type and origin of the dishes popular in various French regions, as well as the culinary terms, herbs and kitchen equipment used in France. But those who can give the extra time to this book will be well repaid by dishes such as "La Bourride de Charles Bérot" and "Cassoulet Colombié"." "The Observer" said that it was difficult to think of any home that could do without the book and called David "a very special kind of genius".

paragraph: "French Provincial Cooking" was dedicated to Peter Higgins, still her lover. David's estranged husband had lived in Spain since 1953 and, to his wife's embarrassment, he was named in a divorce case which was reported in the gossip column of "The Daily Express". In an interview published in the newspaper, Tony had referred to David as "my ex-wife"; she filed for divorce, and the process was finalised in 1960.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:1960s.

paragraph: In 1960 David stopped writing for "The Sunday Times", as she was unhappy about editorial interference with her copy; soon afterwards she also left "Vogue" as the change in direction of the magazine did not suit the style of her column. She joined the weekly publications "The Spectator", "Sunday Dispatch" and "The Sunday Telegraph". Her books were now reaching a wide public, having been reprinted in paperback by the mass-market publisher Penguin Books, where they sold more than a million copies between 1955 and 1985. Her work also had an impact on British food culture: the historian Peter Clarke considers that "The seminal influence of Elizabeth David's "French Provincial Cooking" (1960), with its enormous sales as a Penguin paperback, deserves historical recognition." Cooper considers that David's "professional career was at its height. She was hailed not only as Britain's foremost writer on food and cookery, but as the woman who had transformed the eating habits of middle-class England."

paragraph: David's private life was less felicitous. In April 1963 her affair with Higgins came to an end when he remarried. For a period she drank too much brandy and resorted too often to sleeping pills. Probably as a result of these factors and overwork, in 1963, when she was 49, David suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. She kept the news of the event within her close circle of friends—none of the editors of the publications she worked for were aware of the collapse—as she did not want her reputation as a hard worker to be damaged. She recovered, but her confidence was badly shaken and her sense of taste was temporarily affected; for a period she could not taste salt, or the effect salt had on what she was cooking, but her sense of the smell of frying onions was so enhanced as to be unpleasant for her.

paragraph: In November 1965, together with four business partners, David opened Elizabeth David Ltd, a shop selling kitchen equipment, at 46 Bourne Street, Pimlico. The partners were spurred on by the closure of a professional kitchenware shop in Soho on the retirement of its owner, and the recent success of Terence Conran's Habitat shops, which sold among much else imported kitchen equipment for which there was evidently a market. Among her customers were Albert and Michel Roux, who shopped there for equipment that they would otherwise have had to buy in France.

paragraph: David, who selected the stock, was uncompromising in her choice of merchandise; despite its large range of kitchen implements, the shop did not stock either wall-mounted knife sharpeners or garlic presses. David wrote an article called "Garlic Presses are Utterly Useless", refused to sell them, and advised customers who demanded them to go elsewhere. Not available elsewhere, by contrast, were booklets by David printed specially for the shop. Some of them were later incorporated into the collections of her essays and articles, "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine" and "Is There a Nutmeg in the House?" The shop was described in "The Observer" as:

paragraph: ... starkly simple. Pyramids of French coffee cups and English pot-bellied iron pans stand in the window. ... Iron shelves hold tin moulds and cutters of every description, glazed and unglazed earthenware pots, bowls and dishes in traditional colours, plain pots and pans in thick aluminium, cast-iron, vitreous enamel and fireproof porcelain, unadorned crockery in classic shapes and neat rows of cooks' knives, spoons and forks.

paragraph: David reduced her writing commitments to concentrate on running the shop, but contributed some articles to magazines, and began to focus more on English cuisine. She still included many recipes but increasingly wrote about places—markets, "auberges", farms—and people, including profiles of famous chefs and gourmets such as Marcel Boulestin and Édouard de Pomiane. In her later articles, she expressed strongly held views on a wide range of subjects; she abominated the word "crispy", demanding to know what it conveyed that "crisp" did not; she confessed to an inability to refill anybody's wineglass until it was empty; she insisted on the traditional form "Welsh rabbit" rather than the modern invention "Welsh rarebit"; she poured scorn on the "Guide Michelin's" standards; she deplored "fussy garnish ... distract[ing] from the main flavours"; she inveighed against the "ersatz": "anyone depraved enough to invent a dish consisting of a wedge of steam-heated bread spread with tomato paste and a piece of synthetic Cheddar can call it a pizza."

paragraph: While running the shop, David wrote another full-length book, "Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen" (1970). It was her first book in a decade and the first of a projected series on English cookery to be called "English Cooking, Ancient and Modern". She had decided to concentrate on the subject while recuperating from her cerebral haemorrhage in 1963. The book was a departure from her earlier works and contained more food history about what she called "the English preoccupation with the spices and the scents, the fruit, the flavourings, the sources and the condiments of the orient, near and far".

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Later years.

paragraph: Elizabeth David Ltd was never more than modestly profitable, but David would not lower her standards in search of a commercial return. A new manager was brought in to run the shop and David fought against many of his changes, but she was always in the minority against her fellow directors. The stress of disagreements over company policy—and the deaths of her sister Diana in March 1971 and her mother in June 1973—contributed to health problems and she suffered from chronic fatigue and swollen, ulcerous legs. Gradually her business partners found her commercial approach unsustainable, and in 1973 she left the company. To her annoyance, the shop continued to trade under her name, although she tried periodically to persuade her former colleagues to change it.

paragraph: David's second book on English food was "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", which she spent five years researching and writing. The work covered the history of bread-making in England and an examination of each ingredient used. She was angered by the standard of bread in Britain and wrote:

paragraph: What is utterly dismaying is the mess our milling and baking concerns succeed in making with the dearly bought grain that goes into their grist. Quite simply it is wasted on a nation that cares so little about the quality of its bread that it has allowed itself to be mesmerized into buying the equivalent of eight and a quarter million large white factory-made loaves every day of the year.

paragraph: In 1977 David was badly injured in a car accident—sustaining a fractured left elbow and right wrist, a damaged knee cap and a broken jaw—from which she took a long time to recover. While she was in hospital, "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" was published. Its scholarship won high praise, and Jane Grigson, writing in "The Times Literary Supplement", suggested that a copy of the book should be given to every marrying couple, while Hilary Spurling, reviewing for "The Observer", thought that not only was it "a scathing indictment of the British bread industry", but one done with "orderliness, authority, phenomenal scope and fastidious attention to detail".

paragraph: Some of the research David undertook for "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" was done with Jill Norman, her friend and publisher. The pair decided that they should produce two further books: "Ice and Ices" and a collection of David's early journalism. Like her book on bread, the scope for "Ice and Ices" grew the more David researched the subject. The compilation of existing essays and press articles took less time, and in 1984 "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine" was published, edited by Norman who became David's literary executor and edited further David works after the author's death.

paragraph: The death in 1986 of her younger sister Felicité, who had lived in the top floor of her house for thirty years, was a severe blow to David. She began to suffer from depression and went to the doctor after suffering chest pains; he diagnosed tuberculosis and she was hospitalised. After an uncomfortable time over a three-month stay in hospital, where the drugs she was prescribed had side-effects that affected her clarity of thinking, her friend, the wine importer and writer Gerald Asher, arranged for her to stay with him in California to recuperate.

paragraph: David made several visits to California, which she much enjoyed, but her health began to fail. Because her legs had been troublesome for some time, she suffered a succession of falls which resulted in several spells in hospital. She became increasingly reclusive but, despite spending periods in bed at home, she continued to work on "Ice and Ices". She realised that she would not be able to finish the work, and asked Norman to complete it for her. It was published in 1994, under the title "Harvest of the Cold Months".

paragraph: In May 1992 David suffered a stroke followed two days later by another, which was fatal; she died at her Chelsea home on 22 May 1992, aged 78. She was buried on 28 May at the family church of St Peter ad Vincula, Folkington. That September a memorial service was held at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, followed by a memorial picnic at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. In February 1994 David's possessions were put up for auction. Many of those who attended—and who bid—were fans of David's work, rather than professional dealers. Prue Leith paid £1,100 for David's old kitchen table because it was "where she cooked her omelettes and wrote most of her books". The auction's total receipts were three times the expected value.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: From 1950 onwards David was well known for her magazine articles and, in the 1960s and '70s, for her kitchen shop, but her reputation rested and still rests principally on her books. The first five, published between 1950 and 1960, cover the cuisine of continental Europe and beyond. In the 1970s David wrote two books about English cooking. The last of her books published in her lifetime was a collection of previously-printed essays and articles. From the extensive notes and archives left by the author, her literary executor, Jill Norman, edited and completed four more books that David had planned. Six other books published since the author's death have been compilations drawn from her existing works.

paragraph: On the advice of her publisher, David constructed her early books to intersperse recipes with relevant excerpts of travel writing and scene-painting by earlier writers, and, as her confidence and reputation grew, by herself. "A Book of Mediterranean Food" (1950) draws on nine authors, from Henry James to Théophile Gautier, in between eleven sections of recipes. Reviewers commented that David's books possessed literary merit as well as practical instruction.

paragraph: Some critics, used to more prescriptive cookery writers, thought her approach assumed too much knowledge on the part of the reader. In her view, "The ideal cookery writer is one who makes his readers want to cook as well as telling them how it is done; he should leave something, not too much perhaps, but a little, unsaid: people must make their own discoveries, use their own intelligence, otherwise they will be deprived of part of the fun." In "The New York Times" Craig Claiborne wrote admiringly of David, but remarked that because she assumed her readers already knew the basics of cooking she would be "valued more by those with a serious regard for food than by those with a casual interest". The writer Julian Barnes commented that as an amateur cook he found David's terse instructions intimidating: of a recipe in "Italian Food" he wrote, "E.D.'s first sentence reads like this: 'Melt 1½ lbs (675 g) chopped and skinned tomatoes in olive oil' ... "Melt? Melt a tomato?" ... Could it be that Elizabeth David was too good a writer to be a food writer?". A later cook, Tom Parker Bowles, observes, "You don't turn to Elizabeth David for nannying, step-by-step instruction, or precise amounts and timing. She assumes you know the basics, and is a writer who offers inspiration, and wonderful, opinionated prose. Her recipes are timeless, and all her books wonderful works of reference (and tirelessly researched) as well as beautiful reads."

paragraph: The eight books and eight booklets by David published in her lifetime cover the food of France; Italy; the rest of the Mediterranean and beyond, into Asia; and England.

paragraph: Section::::Books.:France.

paragraph: Two of David's best-known books focus on the cuisine of France: "French Country Cooking" (1951) and "French Provincial Cooking" (1960); France features prominently, though not exclusively, in another two: "A Book of Mediterranean Food" (1950) and "Summer Cooking" (1955). She set the pattern for her books by grouping recipes by category, with sections linked by her chosen passages from literature. In her first book, "Mediterranean Food", David presented chapters on soups; eggs and luncheon dishes; fish; meat; substantial dishes; poultry and game; vegetables; cold food and salads; sweets; jams, chutneys and preserves; and sauces. She broadly followed this pattern in her next four books.

paragraph: David's view on the place of French cooking in the hierarchy of world cuisine is set out in her introduction to "French Country Cooking": "French regional and peasant cookery ... at its best, is the most delicious in the world; cookery which uses raw materials to the greatest advantage without going to the absurd lengths of the complicated and so-called "Haute Cuisine"." She was a firm believer in the traditional French approach to buying and preparing food:

paragraph: Though not neglecting elaborate dishes—she devoted six pages to the choice of ingredients for and cooking of pot-au-feu or lièvre à la Royale (a salmis of hare)—David regarded simple everyday cooking as in some ways more demanding, and gave many recipes for "the kind of food which is eaten frequently in thrifty French households, and it is very good".

paragraph: David emphasised the importance to cooks of careful and knowledgeable shopping for ingredients. She wrote chapters about French markets such as those at Cavaillon, Yvetot, Montpellier, Martigues and Valence. Despite a widespread perception that her view of food was essentially Mediterranean, "French Provincial Cooking", by far her longest book to date, surveyed the cuisine of France from Normandy and the Île-de-France to Alsace, Burgundy, the Loire, Bordeaux and the Basque Country, as well as the south. Looking at the entire field of cookery books, Jane Grigson regarded this as "the best and most stimulating of them all".

paragraph: Section::::Books.:Italy.

paragraph: Unlike its two predecessors, "Mediterranean Food" and "French Country Cooking", David's "Italian Food" (1954) drew little from anything she had already written. She spent many months in Italy researching it before starting work on the manuscript. With two successful books already published, David felt less in need of extracts from earlier writers to bolster her prose, and interspersed the recipes with her own essays and introductions to the various sections. The book begins with a chapter on "The Italian store cupboard", giving British cooks, who at that time were generally unacquainted with most of Italy's cuisine and methods, an insight into Italian herbs, spices, tinned, bottled or dried staples including anchovies, tuna, "", prosciutto, and chickpeas, and Italian essentials such as garlic and olive oil, both seldom seen in Britain in the early 1950s. The rest of the book follows the basic pattern of the earlier works, with chapters on soups, fish, meat, vegetables and sweets, with the addition of extra subjects relevant to Italian food, pasta asciuta, ravioli and gnocchi, rice, and Italian wine.

paragraph: In addition to those in "Italian Food", there are many Italian recipes and descriptions of the land and the people in David's other works. The first recipe in her first book, "Mediterranean Food"—soupe au Pistou—is of Genoese origin. Also in that book are recipes for bocconcini, osso bucco, and several Italian pasta and chicken dishes. Among the recipes in "Summer Cooking" is peperonata (pimentos or sweet peppers cooked with tomatoes in olive oil and butter) which was reprinted as the title article in a later selection from David's works. In "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine", David printed Italian recipes including soups and omelettes made with hops (zuppa di lupolli and frittata con i loertis). Also in that book are substantial essays on Italian people and places. "Is There a Nutmeg in the House?" includes a six-page article on vegetable dishes from Mantua, and another of similar length on the variations of pizza in Italy and beyond.

paragraph: Section::::Books.:Other Mediterranean lands and beyond.

paragraph: When David's first book, "Mediterranean Food", was published in 1950 the British public was still enduring food rationing after the Second World War. Her evocation of the everyday plenty and excellence of Mediterranean food was revelatory, and although she did not reach a wide public until cheap paperback editions of her books came out in the mid 1950s, reviewers immediately spotted her importance.

paragraph: In the introduction to "Mediterranean Food" David set out her basic premise: "The cooking of the Mediterranean shores, endowed with all the natural resources, the colour and flavour of the South, is a blend of tradition and brilliant improvisation. The Latin genius flashes from the kitchen pans. It is honest cooking, too; none of the sham Grande Cuisine of the International Palace Hotel." She conceded, nevertheless, that the food culture of the Mediterranean was not exclusively Latin, and flowered in "the mainland of Greece and the much-disputed territories of Syria, the Lebanon, Constantinople and Smyrna". She described the ever-recurring elements in the food throughout these countries as:

paragraph: In her other books David gives recipes from around the Mediterranean, including gazpacho and tortillas from Spain; dolmádés, and eggs with skordalia from Greece, mutton-stuffed aubergines, yoghurt soup, and a stew of carrots and rice from Turkey; and a Syrian dish of chicken with almonds and cream. From further afield she includes Mauritian prawn chutney; iced cucumber and beetroot soup from Russia; a Persian maqlub of aubergines, rice and mutton; Sikh kebabs and garam masala from India; and Armenian pizza, claimed to be older than the Italian version.

paragraph: In a 2012 survey for the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Carody Culver writes, "It is David's language, particularly her use of description that most strongly enforces the narrative and literary quality of "Mediterranean Food". Her imagery, anecdotes, and literary quotes transform her recipes into stories of experience and memory. ... Ingredients and dishes are not just given as part of a list of instructions, but represented as part of a specific culture."

paragraph: Section::::Books.:England.

paragraph: "Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen" (1970) and "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" (1977) include a few British dishes from outside England, such as Scottish Arbroath smokies and bannocks; and Welsh salt duck and bara brith. David, like many of her generation and class, used the terms "England" and "English" to refer to the whole of Britain.

paragraph: Some writers have believed David neglected the cooking of her own country in favour of Mediterranean cuisine. In the humorous magazine "Punch", Humphrey Lyttelton held that she preferred "inaccessible and often indigestible "saucissons"" to "the splendid Cumberland sausage". More recently a British journalist, Tim Hayward, accused her of "wide-eyed romantic twaddle", excessively focused on France and the Mediterranean. Chaney comments that when "Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen" was published in 1970, some of David's most ardent admirers were taken aback to find her extolling the British culinary tradition, "at its best ... as rich and rewarding as that of the Mediterranean". Cooper writes that although the change of focus from French and Mediterranean food to English surprised the public, David had been moving towards it for some time.

paragraph: David treated her English topics in considerable detail: "Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen" is longer than "Mediterranean Food", "French Country Cooking" or "Summer Cooking". She intended it to be the first in a series of three or even five books on English cookery: "It depends how much time I have ... Later volumes will deal with bread, yeast, cakes, creams and cheeses and egg dishes, and meat and game". They were never written, except for "English Bread and Yeast Cookery", which is by nearly 100 pages the longest of all David's works.

paragraph: David consciously followed in the path of Hilda Leyel and Dorothy Hartley in researching British ingredients and dishes. Like them, she looked back into regional history to find what she saw as "the traditions of a culture rooted to the soil" before "the ravages of the Industrial Revolution". She did not romanticise Britain's culinary past: "Farm and factory labourers, artisans and clerical workers, still lived on a very restricted diet ... their cooking facilities were so primitive and their equipment so scanty that only the most basic forms of cookery could be attempted". But her constant benchmarks were honest ingredients and uncomplicated cooking. She condemned—and explained the alternatives to—the artificial, the ersatz, the "notorious Chorleywood bread", and "all synthetic aids to flavouring ... Nobody has ever been able to find out why the English regard a glass of wine added to a soup or stew as a reckless extravagance and at the same time spend pounds on bottled sauces, gravy powders, soup cubes, ketchups and artificial flavourings".

paragraph: Both the English books are in two parts. The first section is historical, putting the subject into context for the modern reader. In "Spices, Salt and Aromatics" David writes about the background of the herbs and spices and condiments that came into use in British kitchens over the previous centuries, and sketches the history of their adoption from Asia and continental Europe. "The Times Literary Supplement" called this part of the book "as difficult to put down as a good thriller". David follows a similar path in "English Bread and Yeast Cookery"; reviewing the book Hilary Spurling wrote that it contained "a history of virtually every development since Stone Age crops and querns". The second, longer, sections of the two books contain the recipes and descriptions.

paragraph: Section::::Books.:Collections of essays and articles.

paragraph: Although David had drawn on her many magazine articles for material in her earlier books, "An Omelette and Glass of Wine" (1984) was the first straightforward anthology of her work. Compiled with the assistance of Jill Norman, it consists of David's selections from her essays and articles published since 1949.

paragraph: The article from which the book takes its title is an essay on "the almost primitive and elemental meal evoked by the words: 'Let's just have an omelette and a glass of wine. Among the other subjects are profiles of people including Norman Douglas, Marcel Boulestin, Mrs Beeton, and "A gourmet in Edwardian London", Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis. Several sections are devoted to descriptions of the markets of French country towns, and unpretentious restaurants and hotels in France. There are articles on lemons, potted meat, mayonnaise, pizza, syllabubs, truffles, and on the cuisines of Spain and Morocco. For most of the articles David provided either an introduction or an afternote, or both.

paragraph: David had intended to publish a second such volume, and eight years after the author's death, Norman, her literary executor, published a sequel, "Is There a Nutmeg in the House?" (2000). Like its predecessor, it was drawn from magazine articles, essays and other earlier writings, to which Norman added articles written by David in the 1980s. The first section of the book is a short autobiographical piece, a rarity from David, who guarded her privacy carefully. David's interest in the historical aspects of cuisine is given scope in essays on the history of Oxo and Bovril, Alexis Soyer and the potato. Articles aimed at the domestic cook include "Do not Despair over Rice", "Making Ice Cream", and one propounding a view for which she was famous: "Garlic Presses are Utterly Useless". "The New York Times" called the book "this very appealing, completely absorbing miscellany. ... This is a book good enough to eat—and, in a way, you can."

paragraph: Section::::Books.:Booklets.

paragraph: David wrote eight booklets on individual topics. The first two, "The Use of Wine in Fine Cooking" (1950) and "The Use of Wine in Italian Cooking" (1952), were commissioned and published by the wine merchants Saccone and Speed. David reused the first as a chapter in "French Country Cooking".

paragraph: For her kitchen equipment shop, David wrote "Dried Herbs, Aromatics and Condiments" (1967); "English Potted Meats and Fish Pastes" (1968); "The Baking of an English Loaf" (1969); "Syllabubs and Fruit Fools" (1969), and "Green Pepper Berries" (1972). Some of the content was taken from her previously-published magazine articles, and some was further reused and expanded in her later books.

paragraph: David's last booklet was "Cooking with Le Creuset" (1989) written for the French manufacturers of Le Creuset cooking ware.

paragraph: Section::::Books.:Posthumous publications.

paragraph: In addition to "Is There a Nutmeg in the House?" three further books planned by David were completed and edited by Norman after the author died.

paragraph: "Harvest of the Cold Months" (1994) is subtitled "A social history of ice and ices". David had been working on it intermittently for several years before her last illnesses. The book traces the history of ice in the cuisines of Europe from mediaeval times, when it had to be brought from the mountains and kept in ice houses. "The Independent"s reviewer described it as "not a cookery book but an awe-inspiring feat of detective scholarship ... sumptuous and stately". Reviewing the book in "The Times", Nigella Lawson wrote that although it deserved a place on the shelves of anyone who cared about food, it revealed a waning of the author's energies, and "lacks her customary, high-spirited, if fierce, readability".

paragraph: "South Wind Through the Kitchen" (1997) was the completion of one of the projects of David's later years on which she worked with Norman: a single-volume collection of the best of her extensive writings. Norman invited chefs, writers and David's friends to choose their favourite of her articles and recipes. Many of the contributors, such as the chef Simon Hopkinson, contributed an introduction or afterword to the pieces they chose. The extracts and recipes are taken from all David's books published by 1996. There are more than 200 recipes, organised in the customary way with sections on courses and ingredients—eggs and cheese, fish and shellfish, meat, poultry and game, vegetables, pasta, pulses and grains, sauces, sweet dishes and cakes, preserves, and bread—interspersed, as in David's earlier works, with articles and essays. The title of the book comes from an essay published in 1964 and reprinted in "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine", and is a reference to "South Wind", the best-known novel by David's mentor Norman Douglas.

paragraph: The last of the books planned by David was "Elizabeth David's Christmas" (2003). She and Norman had discussed such a book as early as the 1970s, but work on other projects precluded it. After David's death, Norman found when sorting out the author's papers that David had written and compiled far more material on a Christmas theme than anyone else had realised. The Christmas recipes David had most often been asked for formed the core of the book. Together with some Christmas recipes from "Mediterranean Food", "French Provincial Cooking", and "Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen", and revised articles published in previous years in magazines, they were turned into a 214-page work. The chapters dealt with the social and historical side of Christmas, first courses and cold meats, soups, poultry and game, meat, vegetables and salads, sauces, pickles and chutneys, and desserts, cakes and drinks. The book reprints one of David's most quoted sentences, first printed in "Vogue" in 1959, and included in "Is there a Nutmeg in the House" in 2000: "If I had my way—and I shan't—my Christmas Day eating and drinking would consist of an omelette and cold ham and a nice bottle of wine at lunchtime, and a smoked salmon sandwich with a glass of champagne on a tray in bed in the evening."

paragraph: Between 1995 and 2011 Penguin Books issued four paperback selections from David's books: "I'll be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon" (1995), "Peperonata and Other Italian Dishes" (1996), "Of Pageants and Picnics" (2005), and "A Taste of the Sun" (2011).

paragraph: Two further hardback selections of David's writings were published, with Norman as editor. "At Elizabeth David's Table" (2010) was published to mark the 60th anniversary of David's first book. With prefatory contributions from several prominent British chefs including Hopkinson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rose Gray and Jamie Oliver, it comprises recipes and essays from David's previously published works. There are twelve chapters, covering the various courses of a dinner from soups to desserts, and other topics such as baking, cooking "fast and fresh", and David's descriptions of French and Italian markets. "Elizabeth David on Vegetables" (2013) was drawn principally from "Mediterranean Food, Italian Food, French Provincial Cooking" and "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine". There are sections on soups; small dishes; salads; pasta; gnocchi and polenta; rice; beans and lentils; main dishes; breads; and desserts.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honours.

paragraph: David won the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year award in 1978 for "English Bread and Yeast Cookery". She was also awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Essex and Bristol, and the award of a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1976 and promoted to Commander of the Order (CBE) in 1986. The honour that most pleased her, however, was being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982 in recognition of her skills as a writer.

paragraph: In 2012, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, David was chosen by BBC Radio 4 as one of the 60 Britons who have been most influential during the 60 years of the Queen's reign. In 2013 her portrait was one of a series of first-class stamps issued to celebrate the centenary of ten "Great Britons". In 2016 an English Heritage blue plaque was erected on her former home at 24 Halsey Street, Chelsea, where she had lived for 45 years; she was the first food writer to receive this form of recognition.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: The obituaries for David were warm and full of praise for her work and legacy. In "The Guardian", the food writer Christopher Driver called her "this century's most influential cookery writer and scholar in English", while the obituarist for "The Times" wrote:

paragraph: Elizabeth David was the doyenne of English cookery writers. She influenced the generations who came after her, whether they, too, were intending to be culinary experts or merely taking a well-thumbed Elizabeth David Penguin from the kitchen shelf for the next day's dinner party. "Elizabeth David says ..." was the regular way of resolving how much spice—and which spices—should be added to a stew and how much garlic should be put in a dressing. At its best, her prose was as precise as her instructions, unlike that of some of her predecessors who sometimes wrapped up advice on what to do in the kitchen with impenetrable sentences. She was a pleasure to read, a stylist of true distinction. Perhaps only in Britain would she have been classified as a "food writer", too often rather a damning phrase. Elizabeth David combined a scholar's feeling for history with the traveller-aesthete's gift of conveying a sense of place.

paragraph: David's writing influenced the cultural approach of the British towards food. According to the food journalist Joanna Blythman, she "performed both a cultural and gastronomic miracle in post-war Britain by introducing the nation to a vision of fresh Continental food", while the writer Rose Prince considers that David "changed for ever the way British people cook". Janet Floyd, professor of American Literature at King's College London, argues that David was not a driver of change, but came to epitomise that change. The literary historian Nicola Humble observes that "the food revolution of the post-war years would probably have happened without Elizabeth David, though in her absence it would have happened very differently".

paragraph: Floyd comments that David "showed little interest in appealing to or engaging with an audience outside a social elite"; Cooper addresses the same point, although highlights a positive review of "French Provincial Cooking" in "The Daily Worker"—a newspaper that represented the Communist Party of Great Britain—as evidence that David had a broader readership than some give her credit for.

paragraph: David has appeared in fictional form at least twice. In 2000 a novel, "Lunch with Elizabeth David" by Roger Williams, was published by Carroll & Graf, and in 2006 the BBC broadcast "", a film starring Catherine McCormack as David and Greg Wise as Peter Higgins. In 1998 Lisa Chaney published a biography of David; the journalist Paul Levy found it "hasty, botched", although in "The New York Times" Laura Shapiro considered it "comprehensive". The following year an authorised biography, "Writing at the Kitchen Table", was published by Artemis Cooper. She also wrote the entry for David in the "Dictionary of National Biography" in 2004 (updated in 2011). David's papers are at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

paragraph: David's passion for cookware proved influential on the style of the time. Conran acknowledges that her work "formed an important part of the learning process that led to Habitat", and the success of the Elizabeth David Ltd outlet contributed to a demand for French provincial cookware. David went to great lengths to ensure the illustrators of her books got small details right—in a draft introduction for "French Provincial Cooking", she wrote: "I was anxious that such details should be put on record because some of these regional cooking pots are already becoming very hard to find in France, so that in some sense Juliet Renny's drawings constitute a little historical record in their own right."

paragraph: David's ongoing campaign against the mass-production and standardisation of food was ahead of her time, although Chaney describes her thoughts as "instinctive and unarticulated". One of David's passions, the premise of buying local produce in season and preparing it simply, is a message continued by Stein, Slater and Fearnley-Whittingstall.

paragraph: Fellow cooks and chefs have acknowledged David's influence on their own and their colleagues' works; her contemporary Jane Grigson wrote in 1967 "Nobody can produce a cookery book these days without a deep appreciation of Elizabeth David's work." Grigson later wrote:

paragraph: Basil was no more than the name of bachelor uncles, courgette was printed in italics as an alien word, and few of us knew how to eat spaghetti or pick a globe artichoke to pieces. ... Then came Elizabeth David like sunshine, writing with brief elegance about good food, that is, about food well contrived, well cooked. She made us understand that we could do better with what we had.

paragraph: Rick Stein, a more recent chef, says that David was such an influence on his early work that he used one of Minton's illustrations from "A Book of Mediterranean Food" on his menus when he first opened a restaurant. Others, including Nigel Slater, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Prue Leith and Clarissa Dickson Wright, have been influenced by David; Dickson Wright said that David "taught me that food is more than cooking; it is poetry and passion as well. She also taught me never to settle for culinary second-best". Norman quotes Leith as being quite shocked when she asked students at a catering college how many of them had read David's books, and not a single one raised a hand. "But the books do sell—I see the royalty statements—and you see her influence in the cooking of Jeremy Lee, Shaun Hill and Rowley Leigh".

paragraph: David's influence travelled further afield than Britain, and Marian Burros, in "The New York Times" wrote in 1992 that "Dozens of the young chefs who have brought glory to American cooking over the last two decades are indebted to Mrs David." The same year, the journalist Susan Parsons wrote in "The Canberra Times" that "Every leading Australian chef over the age of 40 pays tribute to Elizabeth David as a major influence on their approach to food". More modern Australian cooks, such as Kylie Kwong, have also cited David as a continuing influence on their work.

paragraph: Michael Bateman, the food critic for "The Independent", considered that David "will be remembered as a far greater influence on English food than Mrs Beeton"; the writer Auberon Waugh wrote that if asked to name the woman who had brought about the greatest improvement in English life in the 20th century, "my vote would go to Elizabeth David." David's biographer Cooper concludes her "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" article thus:

paragraph: Section::::Notes, references and sources.

paragraph: Section::::Notes, references and sources.:Sources.

paragraph: Section::::Notes, references and sources.:Sources.:Cited works by Elizabeth David.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Comprising:

paragraph: BULLET::::- (pp. 1–196) "A Book of Mediterranean Food" (1950, rev. 1962)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (pp. 197–395) "French Country Cooking" (1951, rev. 1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (pp. 397–640) "Summer Cooking" (1955, rev. 1965).

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Papers of Elizabeth David, 1743–2007 (inclusive), 1950–1992 (bulk): A Finding Aid. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

description: British cookery writer

wikidata_label: Elizabeth David

wikipedia_title: Elizabeth David


text:
Latinised
University of Krakow
Skarbimierz
Nobles' Democracy
Golden Liberty
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki
English Commonwealth
Founding Fathers of the United States
Paweł Włodkowic
Council of Constance
human rights
international law
just war
Kingdom of Poland
Teutonic Knights
Kraków
Augustine of Hippo
Wincenty Kadłubek
Warszawa
Skarbimierza
Warszawa
Polski słownik biograficzny
Warszawa
Kraków

categories: Polish academics,1360 births,Jagiellonian University faculty,Burials at Wawel Cathedral,1431 deaths,Rectors of the Jagiellonian University,Canons of Kraków

paragraph: Stanisław of Skarbimierz

paragraph: Stanisław of Skarbimierz (1360–1431; Latinised as "Stanislaus de Scarbimiria") was, from 1400, rector of the University of Krakow. He was the author of "Sermones sapientiales" (), comprising 113 sermons.

paragraph: Stanisław was born in Skarbimierz. His sermons were the foundation of Polish political doctrine that culminated in the system of Nobles' Democracy ("Golden Liberty") in Poland and, from 1569, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Many ideas central to this doctrine may be found in subsequent works by Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki (1530–1607) that appear to have influenced the 17th-century English Commonwealth as well as the Founding Fathers of the United States.

paragraph: Stanisław of Skarbimierz, along with Paweł Włodkowic, framed the Polish position, at the Council of Constance, pioneering ideas of modern human rights and international law. Stanisław's sermons "About Just War" ("De bellis justis") and "About robbery" ("De rapina") gave fundaments to medieval theory of just war. The sermons justified position of Kingdom of Poland toward a war with Teutonic Knights. Stanisław died at Kraków.

paragraph: Stanisław's "Sermons" were influenced by earlier works of Augustine of Hippo and Wincenty Kadłubek.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (in Polish) L. Ehrlich: Polski wykład prawa wojny XV wieku. Kazanie Stanisława ze Skarbimierza De bellis iustis, ed. Wydawnictwo Prawnicze, Warszawa 1955;

paragraph: BULLET::::- (in Polish) Olszewski Mikołaj, Świat zabobonów w średniowieczu. Studium kazania O zabobonach Stanisława ze Skarbimierza, ed. WYDAWNICTWO NAUKOWE Semper, Warszawa 2002,

paragraph: BULLET::::- (in Polish) R. M. Zawadzki: Stanisław ze Skarbimierza, [in:] Polski słownik biograficzny, vol. 42, Warszawa-Kraków 2003, p. 76-80 - http://www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl/a/biografia/stanislaw-ze-skarbimierza

description: Polish academic

wikidata_label: Stanisław of Skarbimierz

wikipedia_title: Stanisław of Skarbimierz


text:
hajduk
brigand
Ottoman territories
sanjak
Herzegovina
Bosnia
Montenegro
Bileća
Habsburg Monarchy
Joseph II
Simijova
Bileća
Sanjak of Herzegovina
Ottoman Empire
Ivan Lovrić
Alberto Fortis
Poplat
Berkovići
haraç
Imotski
Republic of Venice
Venetian Dalmatia
Montenegro
hajduk
blood brother
pobratime
Morlach
Duvno
Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci)
Sremski Karlovci
Military Frontier
Habsburg Austria
Serbia
Udbina
impalement
aga
harambaša
Dragović monastery
Ivan Lovrić
Morlach
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
The Mountain Wreath
Montenegrin literature

wikipedia_title:
Hajduk
Brigandage
Ottoman Empire
Sanjak
Sanjak of Herzegovina
Sanjak of Bosnia
Montenegro Vilayet
Bileća
Habsburg Monarchy
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Simijova
Bileća
Sanjak of Herzegovina
Ottoman Empire
Ivan Lovrić
Alberto Fortis
Poplat
Berkovići
Haraç
Imotski
Republic of Venice
Venetian Dalmatia
Montenegro Vilayet
Hajduk
Blood brother
Blood brother
Morlachs
Tomislavgrad
Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci
Military Frontier
Habsburg Monarchy
Serbia
Udbina
Impalement
Agha (title)
Harambaša
Dragović monastery
Ivan Lovrić
Morlachs
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
The Mountain Wreath
Literature of Montenegro

categories: 18th-century military personnel,Republic of Venice military personnel,1715 births,People from Bileća,18th-century criminals,Hajduks

paragraph: Stanislav Sočivica

paragraph: Stanislav "Stanko" Sočivica ( 1715 – 1777) was a Serbian "hajduk" (brigand) active in the Ottoman territories in western Balkans (sanjaks of Herzegovina, Bosnia and Montenegro). Born in a village close to Bileća, his family owned a farm subject to a harsh Ottoman bey family. After murdering the beys and taking their collected taxes, the family subsequently relocated to Venetian Dalmatia from where Sočivica and his brothers began their brigandage. After decades of brigandage, and the capture of his wive and children, he retired to the Habsburg Monarchy, where he was appointed commander of the Pandurs by Emperor Joseph II himself, in 1775.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Origin and early life.

paragraph: Sočivica was born in 1715 in the village of Simijova northwest of Bileća in the Sanjak of Herzegovina (Ottoman Empire). Ivan Lovrić ( 1756–77) wrote the biography of Sočivica, while his life story was mentioned by Alberto Fortis (1741–1803), based on Sočivica's own narrative. He was of normal stature, had a long face, and blue eyes. His father, Vuk, was a farmer, whose land was owned by an infamous family of rich Turks, the Umetalčić, who were very harsh towards the family: they not only constantly insulted them, but also beat them severely. Stanko, a turbulent and ferocious person, plotted with his three brothers against their masters, but their father who was mild and pacific advised them not to act, for several years. Two of his brothers were named Ilija and Nikola.

paragraph: The three Umetalčić brothers, having headed from Poplat (Berkovići) to nearby Vranjska to collect haraç (tax), had by chance decided to lodge at the Sočivica farm, carrying with them a purse of 18,000 sequins that they had collected on the way. Stanko convinced his two brothers that this was a chance for vengeance, and enrichment, and persuaded them to murder the three guests. They then had them buried in a deep ditch by the farm.

paragraph: After the murders, the family did not flee; in retaliation, the Pasha of Trebinje and the captain of the guards arrested up to 50 Christians, some of whom were executed, the other made slaves, but no suspicion fell on the brothers. In about a year, however, there were some doubts; Stanko's rashness, and the sum of money they suddenly had, forced them to leave their home and decamp. Their father died on the way.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Imotski.

paragraph: The family arrived in Imotski, which at the time was under the sovereignty of the Republic of Venice (Venetian Dalmatia), and built a house and opened up a shop with excellent and expensive merchandise, with the Ottoman money, in 1745. The merchant life did not suit Stanko's activeness, thus, he and an entourage of 10 men turned to Montenegro, where they by the course of the summer massacred 40 Turks. It is thought that he never committed an offence against subjects of Venice or Austria, but entirely directed his fury against the Turkish people.

paragraph: After several expeditions, joined by one of his brothers, he returned to Imotski where he resided for 9 years, working in the trade established by his family. He made excursions from time to time, and assassinated Turks. One of his brothers was in the band together with distinguished hajduk Lazar Pecirep. Stanislav Sočivica and Lazar Pecirep were the most distinguished hajduks of their time.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Murder of his brother.

paragraph: Sočivica's brother, who had accompanied him on his expeditions, joined the most furious hajduks (brigands) in the country, and became a blood brother ("pobratime") with an Orthodox Morlach, who, in spite of the brotherhood, got him drunk and delivered him to the Pasha of Travnik where he was tortured to death. After hearing of his brother's death, Sočivica immediately went to the house of the blood brother, where he was received by his father. The father told a story in a manner posing his son as entirely innocent, and when the blood brother appeared he displayed great kindness, then went out under the pretence of seeking the finest lamb in his flock to treat Sočivica; his real intention was to deliver him to the Turks stationed in Duvno, 19 km from the house. As the blood brother had not yet returned, the house retired to rest, all except Stanko. He was tormented with bad feelings, and rose from his bed in search for a light, but could find none throughout the house. Suspicion and rage arose, and he sought his arms, but could not find them, and he called loudly, but to no answers. He went to the bedside of the father, demanding his arms. The father, who expected his son returning with Turks, sought to gain time by equivocating, Sočivica then rashly crushed his head with a small axe, then went to an old female servant, who complied with him. As soon as he regained his arms, he left the house and lurked at a distance, to watch the event and ascertain the blood brother's treachery, of which he soon gained proof of. Sočivica then assembled a few friends, surrounded and set the house on fire. 17 people died in the flames, and a woman who attempted to escape was shot together with her infant in her arms. From this time on, the Ottomans pursued Stanko with maximum rancour, and Sočivica in the meantime multiplied his murders and robberies.

paragraph: In August 1754, the same year when he had burnt the house, he narrowly escaped the pursuit of a party of Croats, who were out in search of him, and concluding that he was no longer safe in Venetian territory, he sent for his family to join him in Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci), to which he travelled to by foot.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Karlovci.

paragraph: As he was pursued on every side, he retired with his family to Sremski Karlovci, in the Military Frontier of Habsburg Austria (modern Serbia). He lived an innocent life there for 3 years, together with his two brothers, wife, son and daughter.

paragraph: An undisclosed person betrayed him into the hands of the same Pasha that killed his brother, and his wife and children were later captured in the same manner. The three Sočivica brothers were imprisoned at a fort beyond Udbina, at the Ottoman–Venetian–Austrian frontier, and then escorted by 100 cavalrymen before the Pasha of Travnik, to be relocated to the prison in Travnik. They were given two choices, conversion into Islam, or impalement, accepting the former. His two brothers were released, and one of them was bestowed the title of "aga", while Stanislav, known for his public antagonism towards the Ottomans, remained imprisoned. His two brothers took the first opportunity to flee the Ottomans, upon which the enraged Pasha annulled the conversion of Stanislav, who had been given the name "Ibrahim", and ordered for a more strained imprisonment with constant overwatch. His new strategy was to tell the guards of buried treasures, and that he would show the Pasha the locations in return of privileges that he had before his brothers' escape. For a month, Sočivica took the guards to different locations where he had either kept a sum of money, or places where he claimed he had mistaken. On 26 November 1758 Sočivica and his family, which had been lured to meet up with Sočivica as a free man, were brought before the Effendi. He later managed to escape during the journey. As his family members were still prisoners, he negotiated for their release with the Pasha, but in vain. As all methods failed, he resorted to write to the Pasha:

paragraph: The Pasha did not give much attention to the letter, and Stanko exerted himself in accomplishing the vow he made. He devastated the country, showing proof of his heroism; so much that the people were forced to request the pasha for help from the devastation, by sending back his wife and children. The Pasha, however, was unrelentless, and Stanko could only free his family with force and strategy.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Late years.

paragraph: Sočivica's men captured a Turk who had earlier helped one of his brothers to escape, and the brother, in opposition to the chief and the rest of the band, was anxious to return the favour. Although the Turk was destined to die, the grateful brother, while Stanko was at prayers, set him free. The other hajduks were outraged, and one of his nephews even punched him; the brother then drew a gun and killed him on the spot. Sočivica expelled his brother, and after the funeral of his nephew, felt such a humiliation that he decided to retire.

paragraph: However, his habits were not so easily changed. After a short retirement he suddenly resumed the banditry, plundering on the highway. After his many massacres and robberies, he only had a possession of 600 sequins, which he confided to a friend and a cousin, however, both ran off with the money.

paragraph: Later, in 1775, Emperor Joseph II, while passing by Grazach, where Sočivica resided, wished to see him. Joseph II brought him and interrogated him, and made him repeat the main events of his life, then gave him a considerable sum of money and appointed him the "harambaša" of the Pandurs. He lived at Grazach in 1777, at the time when his biography was first written. In 1800, it was not known whether he was dead.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Stanko managed to have his wife and son released from captivity in Ottoman Travnik, and had them brought to the Serbian Orthodox Dragović monastery, in Venetian territory, where a monk learnt his son how to read and write.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: His life was the subject of a book by Dalmatian writer Ivan Lovrić (1776). He was known in Morlach folk poetry. He was also mentioned in Petar II Petrović-Njegoš "The Mountain Wreath", a masterpiece of Montenegrin literature.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lazar Pecirep, a member of one of Stanko's brothers bands, and acclaimed hero of Herzegovina and Montenegro.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Primary

paragraph: BULLET::::- Secondary

description: Croatian outlaw

wikidata_label: Stanislav Sočivica

wikipedia_title: Stanislav Sočivica


text:
cardinal deacon
Rome
University of Paris
Master of Arts
Pope Celestine V
Church of San Giorgio in Velabro
Pope Boniface VIII
legate
Pope John XXII
Avignon
dactylic hexameter
Acta Sanctorum

wikipedia_title:
Cardinal (Catholic Church)
Rome
University of Paris
Master of Arts
Pope Celestine V
San Giorgio in Velabro
Pope Boniface VIII
Papal legate
Pope John XXII
Avignon
Dactylic hexameter
Acta Sanctorum

categories: Writers from Rome,1343 deaths,Italian cardinals,1270 births

paragraph: Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi

paragraph: Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi (c. 1270 – 23 June 1343) was an Italian cardinal deacon.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Born in Rome, he was the son of the senator Pietro Stefaneschi and his wife, Perna Orsini. He received his early education at Rome, and was sent to the University of Paris to pursue higher studies. After three years he received the degree of Master of Arts, and intended to devote himself to the study of philosophy and Holy Scripture, having already begun to teach at the university, when his parents recalled him to Italy in order that he should study canon and civil law.

paragraph: He was highly esteemed by Pope Celestine V, who made him canon of St. Peter's and auditor of the Rota. He was created cardinal-deacon of the titular Church of San Giorgio in Velabro on 17 December 1295, by Pope Boniface VIII, who also sent him as legate to Cesena, Forlì, Faenza and Bologna in 1296, to suppress civil disturbances. Pope John XXII appointed him protector of the Minorites, 23 July 1334. He was never ordained priest.

paragraph: He died at Avignon.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Stefaneschi is best known as the author of "Opus Metricum", a life of Celestine V composed in dactylic hexameter. Abstracting from a short autobiography left in his cell by Celestine when he became pope, the "Opus Metricum" is the earliest biography of the hermit-pontiff. It is composed of three parts, each complete in itself and written at a different time. In 1319 the author united these three separate poems into one work and sent it with a dedicatory epistle to the prior and the monks of San Spirito at Sulmona, the mother-house of the Celestines. The first part contains in three books an account of the election, reign, and abdication of Celestine. It was written before Stefaneschi became cardinal. The second part describes in two books the election and coronation of Boniface VIII, and was written five years later, when Stefaneschi was already cardinal. The third part is composed of three books and describes the life of Celestine after he had abdicated, his canonization, and miracles. The poem is preceded by an introduction in prose, which contains valuable data of the author's life and a synopsis of the whole work. Though of great historical value, the poem is devoid of all literary excellence, and at times is even extremely clumsy and barbarous. It was first edited by Papebroch, "Acta Sanctorum", IV, May, 436-483.

paragraph: The other works of Stefaneschi are: "Liber de Centesimo sive Jubileo", edited by Quattrocchi in "Bessarione" (1900), an interesting and historically important account of the first Roman Jubilee, held in 1300; "Liber ceremoniarum Curiæ Romanæ", a book of ceremonies to be observed at the Roman Court; "Vita S. Georgii Martyris", a eulogy on St. George, the patron of Stefaneschi's titular church; and "Historia de miraculo Mariæ facto Avinione", a short narrative of how a young man, who had been condemned to death at Avignon, was miraculously delivered by the Virgin Mary.

description: Catholic cardinal

wikidata_label: Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi

wikipedia_title: Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi


text:
American
The Doors
Manzarek-Krieger
Robby Krieger Band
Disneyland
Los Angeles
rock
jazz
fusion
Herbie Hancock
The Motels featuring Martha Davis
Angelo Barbera
Robby Krieger Band
Stewart Copeland
The Doors of the 21st Century
The Doors
Ray Manzarek
Official Website

categories: 20th-century male musicians,People from Garden Grove, California,20th-century American drummers,American male drummers,21st-century American drummers,1971 births,Musicians from California,Living people

paragraph: Ty Dennis

paragraph: Ty Dennis (born January 19, 1971) is an American drummer best known for his work with The Doors revival band Manzarek-Krieger and the Robby Krieger Band.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Ty was born in 1971 and grew up in Garden Grove, California, near Disneyland. He graduated from Garden Grove High School, the Argonauts, in 1989. His father is an accomplished jazz drummer. He spent his childhood there before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: By 1995, Ty became established as a session musician in Los Angeles, playing many styles of music including rock, jazz and fusion. His favorite musician and biggest influence is Herbie Hancock.

paragraph: He spent some time drumming for The Motels featuring Martha Davis when he met bassist Angelo Barbera who was playing bass for the Robby Krieger Band. When the Robby Krieger Band needed a new drummer in 2001 Barbera recommended Ty for the job and he got it. When Stewart Copeland broke his arm after falling off a bicycle in 2003, Dennis filled in for him in The Doors of the 21st Century, the newly reformed version of The Doors which was led by Robby Krieger and organist Ray Manzarek. After playing for them for several months, it became clear that Copeland would not return and Dennis was the new permanent drummer for the band. He has remained with them ever since, throughout all of their name changes.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Ty Dennis

wikipedia_title: Ty Dennis


text:
Cheylas, France
Italian Wars
Bayard
Ardennes
gendarmes
Francis I
Turin, Italy
Battle of Ceresole
cavalry charge
Isle of Wight

categories: Military leaders of the Italian Wars,1492 births

paragraph: Guigues Guiffrey

paragraph: Guigues Guiffrey, lord of Boutières (born in the Tower House at Cheylas, France on 13 May 1497), was a French soldier in the Italian Wars. He married Gasparde Berlioz in 1526.

paragraph: In 1521, he served under the Chevalier Bayard in the siege of Mézières in the Ardennes, and in 1524 he commanded a company of gendarmes in the defense of Marseilles against the Imperial forces.

paragraph: The French king, Francis I, named him military governor of Turin, Italy, in 1537, but because of his mediocre administrative talents he served just a short time. He acquired the château of Touvet during the Dauphiné period.

paragraph: In 1544, he commanded the French forces in the Piedmont but when he allowed the town of Carignan to fall to the enemy, he fell into disgrace and was relieved of his command. On the nomination of the Count of Enghien, he took part under the orders of this new general in the Battle of Ceresole, where he won fame through his skillful use of the cavalry charge. He ended his military career in fighting the English during the expedition on the Isle of Wight.

description: Italian military commander

wikidata_label: Guigues Guiffrey

wikipedia_title: Guigues Guiffrey