- Widely regarded as Britain's first celebrity chef, she has written over 160 cookbooks in a career dating back to the 1940s. She has since sold 17 million copies worldwide.
- She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to cookery.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to culinary arts and broadcasting.
- Brighton, East Sussex, England (June 2010)
- Lived in Brighton for many years but after suffering a stroke in 2011 she moved to a nursing home in Twickenham to be near her daughter, Judith.
- She received the Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
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