Loud, funny and undoubtedly fat, Jennifer Paterson was a familiar sight in London, zooming around on her Honda 90cc scooter. For her appearances on The Two Fat Ladies, however, she moved decidedly upmarket to a Triumph Thunderbird 900cc with a Watsonian scooter—perfect for tooling around England with co-host Clarissa Dickson Wright in tow.

For 15 years Jennifer was a cook for London's daily newspaper The Spectator, providing weekly lunches for the literary and famous. Her regular columns in The Spectator and The Oldie, a monthly humor magazine, were avidly consumed by top chefs who found her a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stiff-upper-lip world of British cookery. Jennifer was also a well-loved voice on BBC Radio 4's Questions of Taste, and her appearances on BBC2's Food and Drink were legendary.

The culinary world mourned when Jennifer passed away in August 1999 at the age of 71. She was an extraordinary spirit whose sense of humor, unending enthusiasm and political incorrectness will be sorely missed by all of her fans and everyone at Food Network.