Miss Paterson, often filmed with a cigarette clamped firmly in her mouth, spoke with an upper-class accent and boomed out her opinions at will. They rode from one cooking job to the next, chortling and trading wry quips about food, love and life, without regard, as one journalist noted, to the more tortured sensitivities of the 1990s. Miss Paterson was filmed for the show driving a Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle, with Dickson Wright riding its Watsonian sidecar. Loud, funny and unashamedly corpulent, the chain-smoking Miss Paterson and her equally portly partner were famous around the world for their eccentric culinary antics. television, where tamer chefs such as Martha Stewart often bore aficionados with their delicately prepared dishes and even more carefully chosen words. Miss Paterson and her colleague, Clarissa Dickson Wright, had emerged recently as cult figures on U.S. Jennifer Paterson, 71, half of the BBC cooking duo whose "Two Fat Ladies" show was syndicated in 10 countries, died of cancer Aug.
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