I. An influential cook
Delia Smith is one of the most widely respected cookery writers in Britain. She has made regular appearances in television cookery programmes (1)...............................over thirty years, and more than ten million cookery books have (2) ...............................sold.
Delia always says that her real skill is communication rather (3) ........................ cooking. Indeed, she had no formal cookery training (4) ........................she began writing on the subject in a daily newspaper in 1969. Delia (5) ........................... simple step-by-step recipes which even inexperienced cooks can follow. What’s (6) ........................., her recipes are tried-and-tested, Delia has made them successfully (7) .........................least twenty times before they appear on television or in one of her books.
Because people trust Delia’s recipes, they tend to (8) ........................... her advice in large number. In 1998, after Delia presented three programme devoted to (9) ...............................cooking of eggs, sales of eggs in Britain increased by fifty-four million. Similarly, sales of cranberries increased by thirty percent after Delia included some (10) ............................... the little red berries in a recipe for cooking roast duck. In supermarkets across the country, shoppers were demanding cranberries, (11) ...............................unfortunately there were none left to buy.
Cooking is (12)............................. Delia’s only interest, though. She is also a director of her local football club, where she runs a restaurant at the ground.
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