She smoked - Woodbine cigarettes - and drank like a fiend, yet was a devout Catholic, giving up alcohol for Lent, and attending mass every Sunday, even when they were travelling about the country filming the The Two Fat Ladies series. She always watched TV with the volume exceedingly high. She always had her fingernails brightly painted, and wore false eyelashes. She commented on the pasta to a waiter in one Italian restaurant, saying “I asked for al-dente dear, not breaka-the-dente.” She also advocated a return to good, traditional cooking, modern shifting health science be damned. She was a fan of things cooked properly, and not undercooked as was the fashion at the time. She also wrote food columns for The Spectator and The Oldie, did TV appearances on Food and Drink on BBC 2, and was often on the BBC Radio 4 programme called “Questions of Taste.” Jennifer Paterson gained overnight fame in 1996 as one of the two principals on the TV series called “Two Fat Ladies,” and as co-author of the accompanying cookbooks.
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