Zena Skinner obituary

Television cook and author who offered sensible, homely advice about traditional dishes to British viewers in the 1960s and 70sZena Skinner, who has died aged 91, was a mainstay of daytime and early evening television during the 1960s and 70s, when her cookery demonstrations offered comfort, reassurance and instruction to the sometimes hapless viewer, in contrast to the prima donna approach of her contemporary Fanny Cradock or the emphasis of her younger rivals on entertainment and novelty.Altho