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Ulster sculptor honoured with an OBE at Palace
Saturday, 21 November 2009
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John Sherlock with Dame Mary Peters at Buckingham Palace, and (left) Delia Smith with her CBEONE of Northern Ireland’s best known artists has received an OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.
John Sherlock, who was |accompanied by his family and Dame Mary Peters, is best known for casting Nobel |laureates John Hume and |Seamus Heaney in bronze.
Meanwhile, the doyenne of British cooking Delia Smith was awarded a CBE.
Through her recipes and |television programmes Smith (68), has become a culinary institution, teaching the nation to cook and bake for 40 years.
Her books — including Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course — have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
Smith was joined by her husband, journalist and publisher Michael Wynn Jones, and mother, Etty Smith (89).
The TV chef described how she discovered her passion for cooking working in a restaurant in Paddington, west London, in the 1960s.
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