Dela Smith is one of the most popular and richest Cook who was born on June 18, 1941 in Woking, England, United Kingdom.
Delia Ann Smith CH CBE (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous. She is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C. Her partner in the shareholding is her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones.
In 1969 Smith was taken on as the cookery writer for the Daily Mirror’s newly-launched magazine. Their deputy editor was Michael Wynn-Jones, whom she later married. Her first piece featured kipper pâté, beef in beer and cheesecake. She baked the cake which was used on the cover of The Rolling Stones’ album Let It Bleed. In 1972 Smith started a column in the Evening Standard. She later defected to the rival Evening News, but she returned to the Standard when that newspaper bought out the News. She wrote for both for 12 years; later she wrote a column for the Radio Times until 1986.
Born to Harold Bartlett Smith (1920–1999), an R.A.F. radio operator, and Welsh mother Etty Jones Lewis (b. 1919), in Woking, Surrey, Smith attended Bexleyheath School, leaving at the age of 16 without a single O-level. Her first job was as a hairdresser: she also worked as a shop assistant and in a travel agency.
