- Title: Matters Of Taste Elizabeth David
- Date: 26th December 1989
- Summary: ELIZABETH DAVID IS OUR GREATEST GOOD WRITER. AS JANE GRIGSON SAYS IN THIS FIRST -EVER TV PROFILE, 'SHE IS NOT JUST A PERSON, BUT A WHOLE CLIMATE OF EXISTENCE'. WRITER GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT MAINTAINS THAT SHE HAS HAD 'AS IMPORTANT AN EFFECT O N ENGLISH SOCIAL LIFE AS ANY OTHER ENGLISHMAN OR ENGLISHWOMAN IN THE LAST 40 OR 50 YEARS'. SHE WROTE HER FIRST BOOK 'MEDITERRANEAN FOOD' TO KEEP HERSELF WARM D URING THE BITTER WINTER OF 1947 WHEN FOOD RATIONING WAS AT ITS MISERABLE WORST. THIS AND HER OTHER SEVEN BOOKS, WIDELY ACCLAIMED AS SO MUCH MORETHAN RECIPE BOO KS, CONTINUE TO SELL HEALTHILY AROUND THE WORLD. YET REMARKABLY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THIS EX-DEB, ACTRESS AND MODEL WHO IS NOW A CBE, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. SHE HAS MAINTAINED HER PRIVACY UNTIL TODAY, HER 76TH BIR THDAY, WHEN SHE REVEALS SOMETHING OF HER REMARKABLE CHARACTER AND THE FORCES THAT SHAPED IT.
- Description:Suggested preliminary special. A tribute to the person who has done most to change how we cook and eat in this country,including an examination/recreation of the british culinary world of the early 1950's
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Eden Productions LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:26/12/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s