Delia smith biography wikipedia

Delia Smith's early life

Delia Smith was born in Surrey in to Harold Bartlett Smith, an English RAF radio operator, and her Welsh mother Etty Jones Lewis.

Despite being one of Britain's best-known celebrity chefs, Delia didn't always aspire to become a kitchen whiz.

Leaving school with no qualifications she first became a hairdresser, then a shop assistant and a travel agent, before discovering her true passion at the age of Her first kitchen-orientated job was washing up in a Paddington restaurant.

From there she graduated to waitress before eventually being allowed to help out with the cooking.

Delia Smith's career as a celebrity cook 

In cooking Delia discovered her destiny. She began studying recipe books in the British Museum, trying out any meals which took her fancy on the family she was lodging with in London.

Her big break came when she was hired as a cookery correspondent for a new Daily Mirror magazine in The role proved