In her long-awaited and honest autobiography, Clarissa shared with readers her life, from a childhood of wealth and privilege to alcoholism, bankruptcy and subsequent success as a television presenter and food historian: SPILLING THE BEANS was published to terrific publicity by Hodder & Stoughton in 2007 and went straight to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Clarissa Dickson Wright found worldwide fame alongside Jennifer Paterson as one half of the much-loved television cooking partnership, Two Fat Ladies, and metropolitan fame as the manager of Notting Hill’s Books For Cooks. Her subsequent BBC2 series Clarissa and the Countryman, with co-presenter Johnny Scott, was another stellar partnership and established Clarissa as a passionate champion of rural and country issues and pursuits. From 1998 to 2004, Clarissa served two terms as the first female Rector of Aberdeen University.
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