Editor’s letter
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The wonderful thing about Good Housekeeping turning 100 this year is that it’s given us permission to revisit different aspects of our heritage – topics as well as individuals that have played a part in getting us to where we are today. And this month’s wonderful cover star Dame Prue Leith has very much earned her place in the fabric of GH. For many years, she was on the masthead of this title as a contributing editor and so has had a big influence on our cookery pages and culinary ethos. Today, Prue remains a passionate supporter of this magazine and it’s very much a mutual appreciation society! The GH team members are huge fans of Prue’s and she embodies many of the values we hold dear.
The term ‘trailblazer’ is overused these days but it’s a label that Prue truly deserves: she was the first woman to own a high-end restaurant in the capital; she launched her eponymous cookery school as a way of opening up the then extremely sexist hospitality industry to women; she’s enjoyed a very successful career as a novelist; and she’s broken many conventions in her personal life. Now, moreover, Prue proves that age really is just a number as an octogenarian with a pivotal judging role on TV show The Great British Bake Off and she continues to produce brilliant new cookery books – not to mention having a fabulous sense of style. The key to it all, she says, is ‘being curious’. ‘I think it’s good to stir things up every so often, whatever age you are,’ she says. ‘For me, the worst words in the world are, “It’s so boring”. If you find things boring, you’r
