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I'll Try Anything Once : My Life on a Plate by Prue Leith (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherQuercus

ISBN-101529426081

ISBN-139781529426083

eBay Product ID (ePID)26057279834

Product Key Features

Book TitleI'll Try Anything Once : My Life on a Plate

Number of Pages560 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Individual Chefs & Restaurants, Courses & Dishes / Cakes, Courses & Dishes / Bread, Methods / Professional, Methods / Baking

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreCooking, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorPrue Leith

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight15.4 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsWriting honestly about her career as well as her upbringing in apartheid South Africa and her longing for a family, Prue shows that life is what you make it - Daily ExpressHonest and well-written . . . a revelation . . . A perfectly blended mix of humour, emotion, love and reflection , Leith has served up a tasty dish - Daily MailA searingly honest memoir . . . much to entertain - Independent on SundayWhether Leith is talking about business, personal tragedy or her accidental attendance at an orgy, her tone is no nonsense . . . contains some hilarious vignettes - ObserverHer racy memoir pulls no punches - Sunday TelegraphThis book is like a jolly montage from a wholesome family movie . . . a joyful story rather than a self-pitying one - Mail on SundayWhat a terrific tale it is - of a South African girl who could stand the heat and made the kitchen into a remarkable career - Telegraph

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal641.5092

SynopsisOriginally published as Relish , a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue Leith, judge of hit show GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, tells all from childhood in South Africa to becoming a DBE. "What a terrific tale it is - of a South African girl who could stand the heat and made the kitchen into a remarkable career." - Telegraph Prue Leith describes herself as greedy in all senses of the word. Cook, caterer, restaurateur, food writer, journalist, novelist, businesswoman, teacher, television presenter, charity worker, lover, wife and mother, she has certainly lived life to the full. Prue came to London in the early 1960s and, not long afterwards, opened Leith's Restaurant. By the mid-seventies she was a food columnist on the Daily Mail , had published several cookbooks and opened Leith's School of Food and Wine. But it wasn't all work. Prue writes with honesty of her love life, her longing for children, the birth of her son, the adoption of her daughter and much else besides. In this fully revised and updated edition she tells of how she met, fell in love with and married John Playfair as well as her exciting role as a judge on Great British Bake Off, now a hit show in the United States as well as the UK. Prue's down-to-earth attitude to life and her remarkable energy are an inspiration to women readers everywhere., Originally published as Relish , a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue Leith, judge of hit show GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, tells all from childhood in South Africa to becoming a DBE. 'What a terrific tale it is - of a South African girl who could stand the heat and made the kitchen into a remarkable career' Telegraph Prue Leith describes herself as greedy in all senses of the word. Cook, caterer, restaurateur, food writer, journalist, novelist, businesswoman, teacher, television presenter, charity worker, lover, wife and mother, she has certainly lived life to the full. Prue came to London in the early 1960s and, not long afterwards, opened Leith's Restaurant. By the mid-seventies she was a food columnist on the Daily Mail , had published several cookbooks and opened Leith's School of Food and Wine. But it wasn't all work. Prue writes with honesty of her love life, her longing for children, the birth of her son, the adoption of her daughter and much else besides. In this fully revised and updated edition she tells of how she met, fell in love with and married John Playfair as well as her exciting role as a judge on Great British Bake Off, now a hit show in the United States as well as the UK. Prue's down-to-earth attitude to life and her remarkable energy are an inspiration to women readers everywhere.

LC Classification NumberTX649