Prue Leith on Constance Spry | The Cook’s Cook

The Great British Bake Off judge explains how the Cordon Bleu school founder inspired herThe first cookbook I bought was The Constance Spry Cookery Book, published in 1956. In 1959, aged 19, I was doing the advanced course at Le Cordon Bleu and the famous pink tome was standard, if expensive, issue for us students.When I left the school and started cooking lunches for the three partners of a law firm in Whitehall, I more or less cooked my way through its 1,100 pages. I hit the chicken chapter in