50th Anniversary Sunday Times 100 Bestselling Books List

50th Anniversary Sunday Times 100 Bestselling Books List

From Muhamad Ali's Rumble in the Jungle knockout fight, to ABBA's number one hit Waterloo, from the exasperation of the arrival of Rubik's Cubes to the giddy excitement of the first MacDonalds opening in the UK; 1974 was also the year the Sunday Times first published their Bestselling Books List.

To celebrate the anniversary, they have compiled the top 100 bestselling books according to how many weeks a title has spent in the Top Ten and we are thrilled that Delia has appeared three times, for the Complete Cookery Course, Delia's Summer Collection and the Illustrated Cookery Course.

As part of this special list Delia was also interviewed by India Knight, where she talks about her precisely written recipes, “...the information and the timings are the point, that’s why my recipes were always double the length of anybody else’s. Teaching someone how to make an omelette properly takes about 800 words".  Food fashion, "Food fashion moves fast these days. “When I sit in the back of a taxi in London and see all these new restaurants, hundreds of them, I think, ‘I don’t know anything about that kind of food.’ My favourite food is Italian and then British. I think I’m a bit behind the times.” Her popularity, “I wasn’t entertaining. I was just about teaching you how to cook - this boring lady explaining step by step. I was like a Volvo, reliable but not very exciting, but I thought, I know my own and my own know me. The people who want to cook know where I am.”

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