I think Gary Rhodes should wind his neck in. Delia Smith's new cookery programme has taught me how to poach the perfect egg - something I have never mastered in all my 24 years of marriage.

So my thanks go to Delia who has had the patience and fore-sight to have the idea of 'back to basics' cooking.

Anyway who wants to spend a whole day in the kitchen just creating a pudding for the family.

Only Gary Rhodes, I think.

Mrs Brown,

Dunnington.

See COLUMNISTS: John Potts, Delia dishes up her meals with grace

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