Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

Top 10 Billed Cast

Catherine McCormack
Catherine McCormack

Elizabeth David

Greg Wise
Greg Wise

Peter Higgins

Karl Johnson
Karl Johnson

Norman Douglas

Kieran O'Brien
Kieran O'Brien

Charles Gibson Cowan

Andrew Havill
Andrew Havill

Tony David

Jacqueline Defferary
Jacqueline Defferary

Bulgie

Tilly Blackwood
Tilly Blackwood

Doreen

Martin Savage
Martin Savage

George

Jane Lapotaire
Jane Lapotaire

Ernestine Carter

Sophie Duval
Sophie Duval

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    Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

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    Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.

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    2006-01-17

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