Haggis, The: A Little History
Clarissa Dickson Wright went to University College London to study law and was called to the bar at age twenty-one. She practiced successfully as a barrister for a number of years before settling on cooking as her calling.She ran her own catering business, cooked on a yacht in the Caribbean, and served sixty meals a day in her London luncheon club. She also owns two bookstores: Books for Cooks in Notting Hill, London, and the Cook’s Bookshop in Edinburgh. In addition, she is one of only two women in England to become a guild butcher. The other woman is the Queen Mother. Ms. Wright is the first woman to be rector at the University of Aberdeen. She owns the Parachute Café at the Museum of Flight in East Lothian.Her greatest amount of exposure Was with Jennifer Paterson on "Two Fat Ladies," but she refused to make another series after her costar’s death in 1998.