Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Jane Grigson/archive1

TFA blurb review
Jane Grigson (13 March 1928 – 12 March 1990) was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for The Observer and wrote numerous books about European cuisines and traditional British dishes. In 1966 she was awarded the John Florio Prize for Italian translation. Her 1967 book Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery was well received and, after a recommendation by the food writer Elizabeth David, Grigson gained her position at The Observer. Her books English Food (1974), Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book (1978) and Jane Grigson's Fruit Book (1982) won Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards. She was a political lobbyist, campaigning against battery farming and for animal welfare, food provenance and smallholders. Her writing put food into its social and historical context, drawing on poetry, novels and the cookery writers of the Industrial Revolution era, including Hannah Glasse, Elizabeth Raffald, Maria Rundell and Eliza Acton. Through her writing she changed the eating habits of the British, making many forgotten dishes popular once again.

Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. Anyone have a suitable free image? - Dank (push to talk) 21:05, 19 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me. Not sure the Florio Prize needs mentioning in the blurb, but if the word count makes its inclusion desirable it will do no harm there. On reflection I don't think I'd use a hyphen in "was well-received" (and I think we might remove the hyphen from the main article lead, too, if and others are OK with that). That apart, thank you, Dank for your usual nifty and effective encapsulation of an FA.   Tim riley  talk   14:47, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me too. I don't think we have anything that would be suitable as an image, unfortunatley. My usual complaint about WP being too tight on the NFCC for not using them on the main page, but there's nothing we can do about that. - SchroCat (talk) 15:01, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks kindly guys, especially today. (I'm not sure what to do about WP:ERRORS today ... it's a bit depressing, but it's probably best if I wait to see what happens over the next several days before I say anything substantive.) Since we don't have an image, the blurb length is okay but just a little short ... I wouldn't want to remove a sentence without adding something ... thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 15:23, 20 September 2019 (UTC) Oh, and I did very little on this one, it was John's work. He says thanks! - Dank (push to talk) 15:25, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I think I'd leave the sentence where it is: no harm in it, and nothing else leaps to mind to replace it. Mrs Grigson, though exceedingly notable in her field, lived an industrious and fairly unsensational life. Her husband, though clearly worthy of his Wikipedia article, doesn't seem to me famous enough to warrant mention in the TFA blurb for his wife's article, and with the greatest posssible respect for Sophie Grigson, I don't think she is so well known even in Britain as to demand inclusion in the blurb. In short, I can't think of any sentence that would be better than the Florio Prize one. Only one possibility comes to mind: the controversy Grigson caused about discarding mussels that don't open when you cook them, but I'm not sure this is really central to her article.  Tim riley  talk   16:55, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. - Dank (push to talk) 17:46, 20 September 2019 (UTC)