Mary Berry (cook)

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Berry at the Chelsea Flower Show in May 2017

Mary-Rosa Alleyne Berry , CBE (born March 24, 1935 in Bath ) is a British cookbook author and television personality.

Berry was trained at the Cordon Bleu International Cooking School in Paris and the Bath School of Home Economics . She is best known for her role as a juror on the BBC series The Great British Bake Off . In 2012 Mary Berry was awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to the culinary arts .

She has published over 75 cookbooks, including The Hamlyn All Color Cookbook (1970) and Mary Berry's Baking Bible (2009). Since 2014 she has her own TV show Mary Berry Cooks .

Life

Berry was born in Bath, Somerset in 1935, the daughter of Alleyne William Steward Berry (1904-1989), the future mayor of Bath, and his wife Margaret. At the age of 13 she contracted polio , which led to the curvature of her spine and considerable permanent weakening of her left arm and left hand.

Mary Berry married in 1966; the couple had three children - two sons and a daughter. The youngest son was killed in a car accident in 1989 at the age of 19. She is involved in the charity Child Bereavement UK , which supports grieving children and families who have lost children.

In 2017 she received the TV Choice Award for Outstanding Contribution to television .

Publications

  • Sweet Dreams. The best cakes and desserts. Photos by David Murray. Müller Rüschlikon, Cham / Zug 1993 (original title Mary Berry's Desserts and Confections. Dorling Kindersley, 1991).
  • Cooking modern and perfect. Basic knowledge, insider tips, recipes. Gondrom, Bindlach 1999 (original title The new cook. Dorling Kindersley, London 1997).
  • Cooking for beginners. Basic techniques and recipes step by step. Photos by Dave King. Dorling Kindersley, Munich 2008 (original title Mary Berry's How to cook. Foolproof recipes & easy techniques. Dorling Kindersley, London 2007).
  • Cooking is easy. Over 100 recipes that are guaranteed to succeed. Photos by William Reavell, Stuart West, Georgia Glynn Smith. Dorling Kindersley, Munich 2015 (Original title Mary Berry Cooks the perfect. Dorling Kindersley, London 2014).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mary Berry website , accessed January 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Awarded “For services to Culinary Arts”; see. Birthday Honors List - United Kingdom , in: The London Gazette No. 60173, June 15, 2012, retrieved January 13, 2018, p. B7.
  3. ^ A b Mary Berry: "My childhood polio helped me survive the darkest days of my life". Mary Berry reveals how she coped with her son's tragic death. In: Mail Online. January 26, 2013, accessed January 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ List of Prominent Supporters ("Patrons") on Child Bereavement UK website , accessed January 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Newsbeat on bbc.co.uk, September 5, 2017, accessed May 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Berry, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berry, Mary-Rosa Alleyne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cookbook author and television personality
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bath