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Fifty years ago this Autumn Delia Smith started out as a rookie cookery writer at the Daily Mirror magazine. Her writing and television programmes went on to become hugely influential and a huge swathe of the UK's home cooks owe a debt to her. But have we really changed what we buy and what we cook because of her? Peter White talks to food historian Polly Russell about that. Did we listen when she warned as early as the 1970s that we should cut down on the amount of meat we eat?

First broadcast on You & Yours, 18 October 2019.