Jennifer Paterson's Seasonal Receipts

Jennifer Paterson was born on April 3, 1928. She came from an army family and was expelled from convent school at the age of 15 for being disruptive. She worked as a matron at a girls' boarding school before ending up as a cook for the Ugandan legation in London. She worked on the ITV show Candid Camera and as a food writer for The Spectator. She and Clarissa Dickson Wright became the TV cookery duo Two Fat Ladies, which ran for four seasons. Paterson died of lung cancer on August 10, 1999 at the age of 71.

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