Prue Leith: ‘I once thought I’d stabbed a chef in the manhood’

The Bake Off judge on working for sexist chefs, learning to love oysters and what she’ll be eating for her 80th birthdayMy first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed with a cheap mayonnaise thing with bits in it of – I suppose – pickled cucumber. I absolutely loved them. And on the beach, she would butter Marie biscuits on the flat side and sprinkle hundreds and thousands on them, one by one from th