Margaret Katherine "Maggie" Black (22 September 1921, in
Fulham
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,
West London – 5 August 1999, in
Wandsworth,
South London
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) was known as a food historian, a leading food writer, and an author of many children's books and plays.
Born Margaret Katherine Howorth in 1943 she married Robert Alastair Black (1921 - 1967) in
Surrey
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. After the
Second World War they moved to
South Africa where she took a master's degree at the
University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg. They returned to England in 1963 where she published ''No Room for Tourists'' (1965), a semi-biographical account of life under apartheid.
In the following years she went on to study in Switzerland and America, writing books on food history and cook books.
Selected books
* ''No Room for Tourists: A search for an answer to the tensions of Apartheid''. (1965). Margaret Black. London, Secker and Warburg.
* ''Mrs Beeton's Favourite Cakes and Breads''. (1972). Mrs. Beeton. Edited By Maggie Black. London, Ward Lock.
* ''Heritage of British Cooking''. (1977) Maggie Black. Littlehampton Book Services.
* ''The Wholesome Food Cookbook''. (1982). Maggie Black. David & Charles.
* ''Food and Cooking in Medieval Britain (Food and Cooking in Britain)''. (1985). Peter Brears and Maggie Black. English Heritage.
* ''The Jane Austen Cookbook''. (1995, 2002). Maggie Black, Deirdre Le Faye. McClelland & Stewart.
* ''Food and Cooking in Nineteenth-Century Britain: History and Recipes (1996). Maggie Black. Historic England Publishing.
* ''The Medieval Cookbook''. (1996, 2012). Maggie Black. British Museum Press.
* ''Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History''. (2003). Maggie Black. Historic England Publishing.
References
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People from Fulham
Writers from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
1921 births
1999 deaths
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
20th-century English women writers
English food writers
English cookbook writers
Burials at St Peter's, Petersham