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I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

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Delia Smith
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: June 18
Broadcaster
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Cookery Writer
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Woking
Surrey
Delia Ann Smith
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