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- Died
- Birth nameHilda Elsie Marguerite Brown
- Marguerite Patten was born on November 4, 1915 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK. She is known for Know Your Onions (1966), Good Cooking for the Family (1964) and Scoff (1988). She was married to Charles (Bob) Alfred Patten. She died on June 4, 2015 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.
- SpouseCharles (Bob) Alfred Patten(December 30, 1942 - May 30, 1997) (his death, 1 child)
- Cooking good meals at a time of food rationing in Britain
- Widely regarded as Britain's first celebrity chef, she has written over 160 cookbooks in a career dating back to the 1940s. She has since sold 17 million copies worldwide.
- She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to cookery.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to culinary arts and broadcasting.
- Brighton, East Sussex, England
- Lived in Brighton for many years but after suffering a stroke in 2011 she moved to a nursing home in Twickenham to be near her daughter, Judith.
- To the day I die, I will be a home economist.
- [on Fanny Cradock] She brought a sense of... gracious entertaining..., though I disapproved of her evening dress and spangles. I didn't like her as a person because she was a bully - we were judges together at the Festival of Britain [in 1951] and she massacred me in the meeting, but I would defend her ability to the end of my days.
- [on being a home economist] To many people today we have become a dying race, which is a pity because we are needed more than ever. Our role is to educate people, to help them in the home. In this recession we really need to sort ourselves out.
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