![]() ![]() “It’s all the fault of the Duchess of Windsor. “It’s the last taboo, isn’t it-fat?” she said in a 1997 interview. ![]() Weighing more than 200 pounds, she had no more time for dieting than for nouvelle cuisine. She wore black-rimmed eyeglasses, vivid nail polish and plenty of makeup while she concocted her dishes, which she once described as “domestic cooking, not flibbertigibbet restaurant cooking.” The chain-smoking Paterson, often filmed with a cigarette clamped firmly in her mouth, spoke with an upper-class accent and boomed out her opinions at will. “She came to television all too late, but she left some wonderful programs behind, which we will be enjoying for years to come.” “Jennifer was a life force on the side of all things that were politically incorrect,” said BBC broadcast chief executive Will Wyatt. They prepared rich, hang-the-cholesterol meals for a variety of Britons, including potato pickers in Jersey and lumberjacks in Scotland. ![]() They went from one cooking job to the next, chortling and trading wry quips about food, love and life and happily loading their food with butter and cream. Perfectly happy to be fat, she and Dickson Wright toured England on Paterson’s old Triumph motorcycle-she in the driving seat and Dickson Wright, wearing a Red Baron-style helmet, squeezed into the sidecar. ![]()
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