Delia Smith moves to internet as she attacks TV cookery shows

Delia Smith has announced she has cooked up her last dish on television.

The UK’s best known cook, who has fronted a number of cookery programmes for the BBC, is moving to the internet. According to the Daily Telegraph she says that online tutorials are the future as television is now all about entertaining the audience.

“This is the future for me and the population. It’s miles ahead. If you do a TV programme now, it’s got to entertain. When I started, there was further education in the BBC; now you have to entertain. You have someone telling me I haven’t got time to show this, or I haven’t got time to show that.” – Delia Smith

Smith admits that the BBC called her once her Waitrose advertisement deal had ended asking what they could do next. She told the corporation that ‘Delia on the telly has come to an end’.

Smith first graced our screens in the 70s following a successful period as a cookery writer for a national newspaper. She is known for teaching the nation basic cookery skills even telling us in 1998 how to boil an egg. Writing a number of books, she has sold over 21 million of them with her biggest selling book Delia Smith’s The Winter Collection sold 2 million copies.

[Written by Shaun Linden, source: Daily Telegraph, Delia Online]