Delia is Britain’s best-loved and most trusted cookery writer and football club owner.

Delia has worked with food for over fifty years, writing columns and books and broadcasting culinary science from the ground up in a practical, accessible and straightforward style.  She was appointed Companion of Honour in 2017.

Delia has written many bestselling cookery books, such as How To Cheat At Cooking, How To Cook and Frugal Food – which, like many of her works, was published for charity.  Her aggregate book sales exceed 21 million, with Delia Smith’s Cookery Course alone selling over six million copies.

She lives with her husband in Suffolk and attends all of Norwich City’s matches.