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Professional Bio Jane Grigson was brought up in the north-east of England, where there is a strong tradition of good eating. After taking an English degree at Cambridge in 1949 she worked in art galleries and publishers' offices, and then as a translator: in 1966 she shared the John Florio prize (with Father Kenelm Foster) for her translation of Beccaria's Of Crime and Punishment. It was when she began to spend three months of each year in France that Jane Grigson became really interested in food. Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery (1967) was the result, exploring the wonderful range of cooked meat products on sale in even the smallest market towns. It was in 1968 that Jane Grigson began her long association with the Observer Magazine for whom she wrote right up to her untimely death in March 1990; Good Things (1971, re-issued 1991), The Observer Guide to European Cookery (1983) and British Cookery (1984) were all books based on these highly successful series. <I>Fish Cookery</I> was published in 1973, English Food in 1974 and <I>The Mushroom Feast </I>in 1975. Her next two books, the acclaimed <I>Vegetable Book</I> (1978) and her <I>Fruit Book </I>(1982) both won the prestigious Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award. A handsome compilation of her best recipes, <I>The Enjoyment of Food</I>, was published in 1992. Jane Grigson was married to the poet, author and critic the late Geoffrey Grigson, and they had one daughter, Sophie, who has already made her name as a cookery writer.

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