11 Facts About Margaret Blatch

Margaret Blatch was an English vegetarian chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer.

Margaret Blatch served as the principal of the Eustace Miles School of Cookery and published cookbooks, including One Hundred and One Practical Non-Flesh Recipes, in 1916, and Household Non-Flesh Cookery, in 1936.

Margaret Blatch Kelleher was born in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in the second quarter of 1886.

Margaret Blatch married Joseph Francis G Blatch in 1906 at Marylebone; he died in 1921, at the age of 41.

For four years, Margaret Blatch worked as the principle of the Eustace Miles School of Cookery and was frequently requested by her pupils to create a recipe book.

Margaret Blatch, who had supervised the product's manufacture for 29 years, testified that there had never been a previous complaint.

Margaret Blatch's evidence supported the jury's verdict that there was no negligence by the manufacturers, as the germ itself was not present in the food at the time of preparation, though a toxin had developed before consumption.

In 1940, Margaret Blatch was described in the Daily Mirror as "London's famous vegetarian chef".

Margaret Blatch was quoted in the article discussing the growing demand for mock meats.

Margaret Blatch worked as the manager of the London vegetarian restaurant Shearns from 1923 to its closure in 1962.

Margaret Blatch died in Islington in the third quarter of 1963, aged 75.