#clarissadicksonwright

Aged 21, Dickson Wright passed her Bar exams to become Britain's youngest barrister. However, this bright start was blighted by the deaths of Clarissa's Mother and Father. Consequently this led Clarissa entered a spiral of depression leading to 12 years of alcoholic abuse and the squandering of her £2.8 million inheritance. 

But after hitting rock bottom Clarissa turned to her first love of cooking. This was to prove an antidote to her compulsive behaviour and a new career path eventually forming what would be a legendary partnership with Jennifer Paterson to become the Two Fat Ladies. Her passion for food was irresistibly contagious, laced with charm and wit. A passage for a duck recipe from The Two Fat Ladies cook book 'Gastronomic Adventures [With Motorbike and Sidecar] reads

"Somewhere out there is a poem the theme of which is that God, fed up with the world he has created, creates the duck and laughs with joy. Much as I like watching ducks, I love eating them better - indeed, it will be on the menu of my last meal if and when they hang me!" 

Another quote which illustrates this less than ordinary character was on a topic as mundane as butter.

"We have been eating the stuff for at least 2,000 years and if it were killing us in large numbers I think we'd have realised by now: or died out. But we haven't done either”.

Dickson Wright's less than ordinary life did not stop there however. In 2012 when questioned on the culling of badgers, she was infamously quoted saying Britons should eat the badgers which are killed as a result of culling. Which makes me wonder, what would the late Clarissa Dickson Wright's view be on the Billie Badger Felt Slippers?