This is classic Delia, very exciting for its time. Vegetarians were are rare sight. Not many chefs creating veggie recipes. Many Ingredients were also not available back then. Cooking has evolved a lot since then
They never did back then. The cook shovelling his/her face with the dish they’ve just cooked is a fairly recent thing. Compare vintage Mary Berry footage with her contemporary stuff.
We have to remember that this was 1985, there was none of the gluten-free, vegetarian diets and products that are the norm today. For the most part of the 20th century, it was considered strange to be a vegetarian in Britain, and people assumed if you were one, it was for health reasons rather than moral ones.
Because vegetarians were looked on as having two heads in those days, Delia was a bit of a pioneer in those days championing vegetarianism and introducing it to the british table when it was still a meat and gravy type society
When I studied cookery in school, I was taught that a vegetarian is someone who doesn't consume meat or fish, whereas an ovo-lacto-vegetarian doesn't consume eggs or dairy, and a vegan is someone who doesn't consume any animal products whatsoever.
ovo-lacto-vegetarian means someone who avoid meat, fish and poultry but still consume eggs, dairy products and other animal products such as honey (they used to be called just vegetarians), ovo/lacto vegetarian cosume either eggs or dairy and avoid the other along with the rest, vegans avoid animal products of all kind
This is classic Delia, very exciting for its time. Vegetarians were are rare sight. Not many chefs creating veggie recipes. Many Ingredients were also not available back then. Cooking has evolved a lot since then
love watching Delia.
A can. Of wine. From Marks & Spencers no less!! :D
@rewopn This was 1985
I think is funny how she had her hands on her back at the beginning.
Probably nervous that she seems to be cooking in a goth / S&M dungeon.
In the 80s, wine was sold in a can;
let's just leave it at that...
Why not save on washing up and just add the wine, tomato puree etc to the pan....🤭
She didn't taste her dish... um, I wonder why?
They never did back then. The cook shovelling his/her face with the dish they’ve just cooked is a fairly recent thing. Compare vintage Mary Berry footage with her contemporary stuff.
Parmesan... made with calf rennet... totally vegetarian dish :-p
they would not have known that then! no internet or anything to research it.
It was the 80s, I doubt she would have known.
why is cooking vegetarian food a "challenge" delia?
Because you have to find ways of creating tolerable taste out of things like farty lentils.
We have to remember that this was 1985, there was none of the gluten-free, vegetarian diets and products that are the norm today. For the most part of the 20th century, it was considered strange to be a vegetarian in Britain, and people assumed if you were one, it was for health reasons rather than moral ones.
Because vegetarians were looked on as having two heads in those days, Delia was a bit of a pioneer in those days championing vegetarianism and introducing it to the british table when it was still a meat and gravy type society
Vegetarian for me means no egg no cream or I’m wrong?
When I studied cookery in school, I was taught that a vegetarian is someone who doesn't consume meat or fish, whereas an ovo-lacto-vegetarian doesn't consume eggs or dairy, and a vegan is someone who doesn't consume any animal products whatsoever.
I’d say that was vegan?
ovo-lacto-vegetarian means someone who avoid meat, fish and poultry but still consume eggs, dairy products and other animal products such as honey (they used to be called just vegetarians), ovo/lacto vegetarian cosume either eggs or dairy and avoid the other along with the rest, vegans avoid animal products of all kind