Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938–1982) was an
English journalist,
cookery writer, and
explorer.
Early life
Born in
London, in 1938,
she was the daughter of John and Alexandra Hopkinson.
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[Hanbury-Tenison, M. ''Deep-Freeze Cookery''. 2nd edition. London. Pan Books, 1972, p. i.]
Life with an explorer
In 1959, at the age of twenty, she married the Cornish explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Airling Robin Hanbury-Tenison (born 7 May 1936) is an explorer based in Cornwall. He is President of the charity Survival International and was previously Chief Executive of The Countryside Alliance.
Early life and education
The youngest of fiv ...
, and lived with him in a 14th-century farmhouse on Bodmin Moor
Bodmin Moor ( kw, Goon Brenn) is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England. It is in size, and dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history. It includes Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall, and Rough Tor, a s ...
.[Robin Hanbury-Tenison Curriculum Vitae]
Her husband was often away on an expedition, and Marika turned to writing in his absence. She began by finding a job as a £1-a-week cookery writer for a local paper,[Hanbury Tenison, M. ''The Best of Marika Hanbury Tenison'', ed. Catherine Stott. London. Telegraph Publications, 1984, p. 12.] and over the next fifteen years wrote thirty cookbooks and numerous magazine articles. She was cookery editor of the ''Sunday Telegraph
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.
It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
'' from 1968 until her death in 1982, and also appeared frequently on Westward Television.Caesarean section
Caesarean section, also known as C-section or caesarean delivery, is the surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen, often performed because vaginal delivery would put the baby or mo ...
,[Hanbury Tenison, M. ''The Best of Marika Hanbury Tenison'', ed. Catherine Stott. London. Telegraph Publications, 1984, p. 12.] Marika Hanbury-Tenison accompanied her husband on a three-month expedition, backed by Survival International, to visit and live among the Xingu people in Brazil, speaking with local people and studying their living conditions. After returning to England, Marika wrote ''For Better, For Worse: To the Brazilian Jungles and Back Again'' (1972), which was published in the United States with the title ''Tagging Along''.
In 1973, the Hanbury-Tenisons followed up their journey to Brazil with a three-month visit to one to the islands of Indonesia. Marika visited about a dozen tribes, taking tea with former cannibals, swimming through swollen rivers, being attacked by leech
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular segmented bodie ...
es, surviving a shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. Angela Croome reported in January 1999 that there were approximately ...
, and becoming ill and exhausted. She wrote about the experience in ''A Slice of Spice'', published in 1974.
The Hanbury-Tenisons made their last research trip together in 1979, when they visited Malaysia as part of a Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
scientific expedition.[Patricia D. Netzley: Entry for Marika Hanbury-Tenison from ''The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration'' (reproduced as entry for Marika Hanbury-Tenison at Wings WorldQuest)]
Shortly afterwards, Marika was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1982, at the age of forty-four.
Works
*''Deep-Freeze Cookery'' (1970)
*''Left Over for Tomorrow'' (1971)
*''For Better, For Worse'' (1972)
*''A Slice of Spice'' (1974)
*''Deep Freeze Sense'' (1976)
*''Deep Freezing'' (1979)
*''Cooking with Vegetables'' (1980)
*''Princess and the Unicorn'' (1982)
*''A Boy and a Dolphin'' (1983)
*''The Fish Recipe Book'' (1983)
References
External links
Robin Hanbury-Tenison's website
* ttp://www.classictravelbooks.com/authors/marika.htm Marika Hanbury-Tenison entry from Classic Travel Books
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1938 births
English chefs
English women chefs
English food writers
1982 deaths