Duck!

elia Smith will be 81 this month. And what a life she has lived: co-owner of Norwich City football club and off-the-cuff crowd rouser; baker of the cake on the sleeve of the Rolling Stones’ ; creator of the ‘Delia effect’. She shows us, we buy it. Use of a lemon zester in, caused a nationwide shortage of the utensil. Mentioning cranberries in a recipe in 1995 tripled cranberry sales overnight. And in 1998, egg consumption shot up by 10% after Delia dedicated the first three shows of to the humble oval.