Profile

MADELEINE MARSH is the General Editor of Miller’s Collectables Price Guide, the annual bible for collectors, and Miller’s Picture Price Guide. She has also written Art Detective, Miller’s Collecting the 1950s, Miller's Scent Bottles, Miller's Collecting the 1960s and Retro Tabletop. She was a regular reporter for BBC2’s Antiques Show and a frequent guest on Housecall, The Antiques Road Show, Going for a Song, Period Rooms for Channel 5, This Morning (ITV 1) and Great Food Live (UKTV). She has written a regular column on collecting for the Independent on Sunday and has written for many other national newspapers. Madeleine collects and wears 1950s clothes and costume jewellery and is passionate about collecting. In 2003 she was a contributor to Designing the Decades for BBC2 and in 2004 was an expert presenter for Boot Sale Challenge. She appeared as a guest expert on BBC1's 20th Century Roadshow.

Biography

Miranda’ work and life-long interests have always been food and art. She is former curator of contemporary art and worked with artists such as Turner Prize winner Tacita Dean, among many others. Her love of art has been superseded by her love of food, developed during her time working with top chefs including Keith Floyd and Jean Christophe Novelli and also at Bar Contessa in Sydney, where she developed her love of easy, simple dishes made with fresh and locally sourced produce.

Now, her cooking style is resolutely domestic; home cooking of the messy, spontaneous  variety. Her first food book, Teaching Dad To Cook Flapjack (published by Hardie Grant, May 2010), was written as a practical cooking manual to help her father fend for himself after her mother died: “I taught him how to cook flapjack, as his most frequent food request was: "Anything to go with a cup of tea?”, but also as a delicious food novel that can be read from cover to cover.

Miranda lives in a beach house in South Devon with her three young children and husband. She is currently writing her second book.

www.teachingdadtocookflapjack.com

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Updated 05/07/2010