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Delia Smith taught a nation how to cook. She worked to reinstate the basics
of cooking and to remove ordinary people’s fear of it. The response was
huge change. Now, Delia is calling for an even greater change: putting
people back into the heart of politics.
In this short, powerful book Delia shares with us lessons from a long and
eventful life. She introduces us to some of the greatest political thinkers past
and present and reflects on what it means to be a humane person. How
goodness and kindness are eclipsed by oppression and confusion – and that
true politics can only come from the people.
With a foreword from political activist Brian Eno and an afterword from Jamie
Kelsey Fry, a leader of the Global Citizens’ Assembly movement, these nine
essays will challenge the way you think about our future.
Delia Smith is the author of nearly thirty cookery books and has been
presenting cookery shows on television since 1973. She has received three
British Book Awards and when the Sunday Times compiled a special list of
the top 100 bestselling books according to how many weeks a title has spent
in the Top Ten to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the chart, Delia
appeared three times. Delia has entered the Royal Television Society Hall of
Fame and has been presented with a BAFTA Special Award in honour of her
outstanding contribution to television cookery and services to broadcasting.
In 2017 Delia was presented with the prestigious Order of the Companions
of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II for her contribution to cookery and cookery
education in this country (there are only ever sixty-five members at any one
time). This followed Delia’s CBE in 2009 and OBE in 1995. Delia received
the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement award in 2023.
of cooking and to remove ordinary people’s fear of it. The response was
huge change. Now, Delia is calling for an even greater change: putting
people back into the heart of politics.
In this short, powerful book Delia shares with us lessons from a long and
eventful life. She introduces us to some of the greatest political thinkers past
and present and reflects on what it means to be a humane person. How
goodness and kindness are eclipsed by oppression and confusion – and that
true politics can only come from the people.
With a foreword from political activist Brian Eno and an afterword from Jamie
Kelsey Fry, a leader of the Global Citizens’ Assembly movement, these nine
essays will challenge the way you think about our future.
Delia Smith is the author of nearly thirty cookery books and has been
presenting cookery shows on television since 1973. She has received three
British Book Awards and when the Sunday Times compiled a special list of
the top 100 bestselling books according to how many weeks a title has spent
in the Top Ten to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the chart, Delia
appeared three times. Delia has entered the Royal Television Society Hall of
Fame and has been presented with a BAFTA Special Award in honour of her
outstanding contribution to television cookery and services to broadcasting.
In 2017 Delia was presented with the prestigious Order of the Companions
of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II for her contribution to cookery and cookery
education in this country (there are only ever sixty-five members at any one
time). This followed Delia’s CBE in 2009 and OBE in 1995. Delia received
the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement award in 2023.
- Publisher Name:Canongate Books
- ISBN: 9781837267385
- Author:Smith, Delia
- Publication Date:2026-10-22
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