After the success of TV celebrities Bert and Rachel Stokes recipe book

'Cooking with Lard' the veteran cookery writer Bessie Snookes strikes

back with the re-publication of her classic three-volume blockbuster

'Fried Food for the Growing Family'  "I've eaten fry-ups for over sixty 

years and there's nothing wrong with me!" she quipped at the launch

 party held last week at Cyril's Chippy in Camden, North London.

 "And I've survived diabetes and a triple bypass operation"