http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ob...er-861314.html

First two paragraphs:

Long before celebrity chefs captured the headlines, Simone Ortega
transformed the culinary lives of millions of Spaniards – and
reputedly saved countless marriages – with her best-selling 1,080
recetas de cocina, translated into English last year as 1,080 Recipes.
Her collection of simple – she claimed, foolproof – home recipes has
reprinted 49 times since it first appeared in 1972. With 3.5 million
copies sold, her book is believed to be outranked in the Spanish-
speaking world only by Don Quixote and the Bible.

With her refined, kindly manner, Ortega was no vulgar populariser, but
attained huge fame as the person who taught three generations of
Spaniards to cook. "I love it when people come up to me in the street
to say I've saved their marriage, or helped them survive when they
first left home," she said..........


Lenona.