Delia Smith Summer Collection part 5

[@HerAeolianHarp]

Delia is a great cook, clear and easy to follow. Those viewing from afar need to realize that the culinary landscape in the UK in the early nineties was still a wee bit stodgy, so you can see her trying to tantalize taste buds and expand horizons, but never at the expense of her base, who were not really wanting too lose sight of UK traditions. In and out of her cultural context, though, Delia is a masterful cook and excellent cookery educator.

[@sapphire22011]

In this series, she looks almost exactly like my old home economics teacher....she even has a few of her mannerisms 😂😂😂

[@valeriegibson7409]

Lovely recipes

[@HerAeolianHarp]

Delia uses the word gutsy a lot as if she is trying to enliven the palate of her compatriots. It was in the nineties that the UK food scene really started to take off across the world stage.

[@aprilblossoms4]

As an Indian, please don’t crack open a coconut like that. It was painful watching that. There is a very easy way to crack open one. Look for videos where they just whack in the center, it might take a few tries but that is much better and so much easier to grate.

[@aprilblossoms4]

Delia, fish is meat. You might not think so but it is.

[@janwong9437]

Angel hair pasta noooo , mung bean flour glass noodles or rice flour vermicelli noodles

[@LondonEE16]

Adjust your expectations. Remember this was 30 years ago. I mean here she is telling us about corn on the cob as if THAT were something newfangled. 😀

[@xr6lad]

@@LondonEE16100% agree. I mean on another episode she was talking about Rocket and Cos Lettuce as if we had never heard of them. Now a days they are so common I assumed they’d always been around. She was even talking about mascarpone cheese as if it was totally new. I can’t remember a time it wasn’t in a supermarket.

[@aprilblossoms4]

Remember she is talking to Brits especially Brits in the 90s.

[@windella]

Salsa must have garlic!! That wasn't an "American style"barbecue! We wouldn't have a hamburger patty like that! It would be a hamburger sandwich and usually French fries, not roasted potatoes, seldom a green salad & salsa because the hamburger sandwich would have lettuce & sliced tomatoes.

[@adam4757]

To be fair to her, this was the early 90s. She did her bit to expand the imagination of Brits culinary-wise. But yes, her recipes are often adapted.

[@phattjabba]

She has made a Pico de Gallo which often doesn't have garlic

[@dedraclark-mcgee8393]

So she’ll wash her hands after touching a chili, but nit raw beef? Gross!