Ebook: The Epicure's Book of Steak and Beef Dishes

Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten CBE, née Brown (November 4, 1915 - June 4, 2015), was an English home economist, food writer and broadcaster. She was awarded an OBE in 1991 for services to the Art of Cookery and a CBE in the Queen's 2010 Birthday Honours. Patten was the author of more than 165 cookery books, which sold over 17 million copies worldwide. She died on June 4, 2015, at age 99.

Hilda Marguerite Patten was a home econonomist, food writer and broadcaster.
Marguerite Patten fresh from the Ministry of Food during World War II represented post-war austerity cookery books; many selling in huge quantities and produced in colour by Paul Hamlyn. She was one of the early TV cooks to have her own programme.

She was awarded an OBE in 1991.