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Enough Saffron to Cover a Sixpence: The Challenge and Pleasures of Elizabeth David
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Enough Saffron to Cover a Sixpence: The Challenge and Pleasures of Elizabeth David

By Melissa Pasanen

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Nov 16, 2003
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Elizabeth David in her kitchen in the mid 1950s, Halsey Street, London. Elizabeth David Archives

THE LATE BRITISH FOOD writer Elizabeth David was ­fiercely private and abhorred interviews. She appeared on television just once, in 1989. The hour is filled with gushes of praise for David, the most important influence on cooking in Britain in the last 50 ye…

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