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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...n-dies-aged-99

Cookery writer Marguerite Patten, the author of more than 170 books, has died aged 99, her family said.

Patten was famed for her no-nonsense approach to home economics, and was employed by the Ministry of Food during the second world war to advise Britons on how to make the most of their rations.

She was the host of the BBC's Kitchen Front, offering up recipes using powdered egg and spam for Britain during the blitz.

She made her first television appearance in 1947 and was a regular guest on both Masterchef and Ready Steady Cook in later years.
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Despite being given a CBE for services to cookery, and having sold 17 million copies of her books, Patten always refused to call herself a "celebrity chef".

"I am not," she told the Telegraph, in one of her last interviews. "To the day I die I will be a home economist."...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/wo...t-99.html?_r=0

By William Grimes


Marguerite Patten, a home economist who told ration-pinched British families how to make a satisfying meal out of nothing during World War II, and later became one of the country's first television chefs and the author of more than 170 cookbooks aimed at average Britons, died on June 4 in Richmond, Surrey. She was 99.

Her death was announced by her family.

Known as the queen of ration-book cuisine, Ms. Patten worked in the advice division of the Ministry of Food, which was created in 1939 to oversee food distribution during the war.

She went to markets, hospitals and factory canteens, offering tips and giving demonstrations on how to make something out of virtually nothing, with wartime creations like "mock cream" and "mock duck." She also dispensed advice and recipes on "The Kitchen Front," a morning radio program on the BBC.

In the austerity years after the war, with rationing still in force, Ms. Patten continued to help British housewives desperate to put a meal on the table, introducing them to the pleasures of Spam and other exotica. When rationing came to an end in 1954, she incorporated new ingredients like olive oil and avocados into sensible, low-cost dishes that required a minimum of effort and time, primarily through her cookbooks, which sold some 17 million copies all told...

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