Jane Grigson

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Jane Grigson (née McIntire) (March 13, 1928 - March 12, 1990) was a British cookery writer.

She was born in Gloucester, England, and brought up in Sunderland where her father was town clerk.^[1] Her initial schooling was at Sunderland Church High School. In 1949 she graduated in English at Newnham College, Cambridge University and went into the publishing industry. She became interested in food after spending three months a year working in France, and wrote her first book Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery.

She wrote for The Observer Magazine from 1978 until her untimely death in 1990. Her books Good Things and Food With The Famous are based on her highly successful articles.

The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) has created the Jane Grigson Award in her honour.

Jane Grigson died in Broad Town, Wiltshire. She was the third wife of the poet and critic Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985). Her daughter, Sophie Grigson, (b. 1959) is also a cookery writer and broadcaster.

Contents 1 Books 1.1 Other books 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Books

• Beccaria, Cesare (1966) Of Crimes and Punishments; translated from the Italian by Jane Grigson and Father Kenelm Foster. (The translators received the John Florio prize)
• Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967), a book accorded the unusual honour for an English writer of being translated into French.
• Good Things (1971)
• Fish Cookery (1973)
• English Food (1974): an anthology/chosen by Jane Grigson; with illustrations by Gillian Zeiner. London: Macmillan. An Anthology of English and Welsh recipes of all periods chosen by Jane Grigson for which she was voted Cookery Writer of the Year. A revised and enlarged edition (without the subtitle) was published in 1979 (ISBN 0 33326866 0) and later editions were issued by Ebury Press with a foreword by Sophie Grigson.
• The Mushroom Feast: a Celebration of All Edible Fungi With Over 250 Recipes (1975)^[2]
• The Vegetable Book (1978) (for which she received the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award)^[3]
• The Fruit Book (1982) (for which she received the André Simon Memorial Fund Book Award)
• Food with the Famous (copyright to Jane Grigson 1979, published by Grub Street 1991); vignettes of 11 historical figures (John Evelyn, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust among others) with recipes for their favourite dishes.

[edit] Other books

• The Best of Jane Grigson's British Cookery
• The Best of Jane Grigson's Desserts
• The Best of Jane Grigson's Soups
• Book of European Cooking, Jane Grigson's
• Cooking Spinach
• Cooking with Exotic Fruits and Vegetables
• Dishes From the Mediterranean
• The Elle Cookbook
• The Enjoyment of Food. (An anthology)
• The Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy
• In Celebration of Chives
• The International Wine and Food Society's Guide to Fish Cookery
• The Observer Guide to British Cookery
• The Observer Guide to European Cookery
• The World Atlas of Food;
  • Preface to: An English Flavour; by Patricia Hegarty

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Penguin UK page for Jane Grigson
• Page for the Jane Grigson Trust, an educational charity in the memory of Jane Grigson (shows photo of Jane Grigson)
• Review of Jane Grigson's British Cookery, a book of recipes and travelogue of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland