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Elizabeth Craig 1883-1980: Scotland’s first celebrity chef?

16th January 201816th January 2018 Ian Scott

“5 Ingredients” by Jamie Oliver was the best-selling book in Britain last year selling over 700,000 copies and confirming the popularity of the celebrity chef.  We perhaps think of celebrity chefs as a fairly recent phenomenon dating back to the 1950s with Fanny Craddock and later Delia Smith, Ken Hom and Keith Floyd leading the […]

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