does anyone know jane grigson's maiden name?

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the food writer and wife of poet geoffrey

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it Sidebottom?

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought her mum was a cookery writer, also called Grigson. Or am I getting confused?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, your thinking of Sophie Grigson whose mum is Jane Grigson whose maiden name MArk S is searching for.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

pete is correct

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have also been trying to helpfully find out for you but this is a tough nut to crack. I wonder if she was in WHo's Who in the seventies. That would tell you.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, I see.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Jane McIntyre: (Entry from the Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women)

'Grigson is admired both for her simple wholesome recipes and for the appealing style of her writing.

After graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1953, Jane McIntire worked as an editorial assistant for two years before taking a job as an Italian translator. She went to live in Wiltshire with her husband, the poet Geoffrey Grigson, and together they made many visits to France. The end of her translator's job in 1967 coincided with the publication of her first cookery book, Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery. She continued to produce more books after becoming cookery correspondent for the Observer Magazine, including the cookery classics English Food (1974), Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book (1978), and Jane Grigson's Fruit Book (1982). Her daughter, Sophie Grigson, also writes and broadcasts on cookery.'

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

oh you honey pete!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

is there anything that the combined brain of ILX cannot tell us???

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Where do babies come from?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Beats me.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

carsmile i have a list of abt a dozen fact-checks which i need cleared up by the end of the day

eg what price wz the grayson perry catalogue at the recent barbican show: their press office are not ringing me back

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/html/n-graybk0502.html : According to this the monograph Guerilla Tactics (which appears to also be the catalogue) was £35.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah come on Mark you're going to have to ask for much more obscure facts to beat Pete (of course beating Pete has its risks, see above).

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ok but the barbican just rang and they say its £21.95!!

who is touring the "enter here >" exhibition?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you think we could use our knowledge of Sophie Grigson's mother's maiden name to drain her bank account?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

If we beat Pete and we have an ILX baby, who will it look like?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(Hmm, you can't trust websites can you!!! Another website said 35 Euros which would make sense).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

haha websites

"did you fact check this mark s?"
"i looked it up on the internet!!"

here is a little game:
take someone famous with a slightly unusually spelled name
mispell it
google it
read loving website devoted to person, with name spelled wrong throughout

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"did you check this fact mark s?"

"a notorious self-proclaimed liar told me it on the internet"

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(also archel: if the blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll, ilx will have a baby and they will call it filthy crossword)

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

YAY!!! FILTHY CROSSWORD!!!

― alext (alext), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

grr i just realised i need the year she and GG were married!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't help you there Mark. Sometime after college and before her first book was published....

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

What became of mark s and his Grigson infatuation?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ACK!!! ACK ACK ACK!!! Down, thread, down. N, why did you revive this thread?

Mark S, why were you researching this?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i.e. I could find out more about this subject than you would EVER NEED TO KNOW with just one phone call. But obviously this is no longer needed.

However, if there *was* an article written about her, my in-laws would probably like to have it. (As well as the photo of her grandson with oscillators and A CAT which The Wire stole and never returned a long time ago...)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to defraud Sophie.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sophie's actually incredibly sweet. A bit saucy, that runs in the family, it's quite charming. So no defrauding her!

(God, I'm starting to sound like Suzy with the "no, Celeb X is actually really nice...")

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Whereas on this point I'm all 'eeuw, Kate, you will die in the face of the COMEDY EARRINGS.' It's like she's wearing the stock from an Islington toy shop on her ears.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the new vybz kartel album is amazing, by the way

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not bothered by her earrings. And hey, if you pick on my in-laws, I'll pick on your in-laws!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

in a desperate effort... to change the subject

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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