Mary at 90!

All credit to her, Mary Berry has been working in the food industry for the last seventy years. She never achieved any qualifications at school in Bath, where I trained, but she did get a City and Guilds in Food and became a Home Service Advisor for the Electricity Board. That had seemed like a good career for me too until the demise of both the Gas and Electricity Boards. The role had been to advise customers on how to get the best from their new cooker, but obviously that was a non-starter. So teaching it was, thank goodness! Mary has been a great influence on so many of us over the years, going right back to the Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook. I still have mine, do you?