Joyce Molyneux (17 April 1931 – 27 October 2022)Joyce Molyneux obituary
theguardian.com. 28 October 2022. was a British chef and restaurateur, who became one of the first women to receive a

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said "Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the chef, Joyce Molyneux, was at the forefront of the growth of modern British cooking". Molyneux worked in just three restaurant kitchens, ''Mulberry Tree'' in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1950s, ''Hole in the Wall'' in Bath in the 1960s, and for 25 years at ''The Carved Angel'' in

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until her retirement in 1999. In 1959 she met Stephen Rodríguez-García, who was working at the Mulberry Tree as a waiter. He became her partner until his death in 1994.

Bibliography

* ''The Carved Angel Cookery Book'' (1990)Credited to Joyce Molyneux and

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. * ''Born to Cook: Angel Food'' (2011)

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