PRUE LEITH

There is Nothing Like a Dame

Do you remember that South Pacific number, "There is nothing you can name, that is anything like a Dame?" The fact is there are many dames in this world. The dame, perhaps a gangster's moll, that struggles to the bar for yet another drink or the super dames like Dame Judy Dench, Dame Twiggy, Dame Emma Thompson. Ladies who "are not for burning", ladies who tend to speed down the motorway! Born in Cape Town the Aquarius Sun, Gemini moon Dame Prue Leith is no exception. In fact, this high voltage lady is probably rubbing her hands with glee as she contemplates the new Bake-Off series.

She was the dynamite daughter of a dynamite dad who worked for African Explosives. Even if she grew up to the sound of blow ups, her well placed Aquarius ensured she was a wellbalanced, even if adventurous type. The type of gal that was ready to board a rocket to the moon, oops sorry Paris, and eventually revolutionize the British cookery scene.

in fact, when she was a lovely, young lass she convinced mum and dad that it really was a good idea to travel across the globe and study at the Sorbonne University. Her excuse was that she wanted to learn French; she probably wanted to learn how to cook snails.

Joking aside, after tasting a smorgasbord of delightful French food, she was so excited by such exotic concoctions she proceeded to England, the "land of bangers and mash", and enrolled in a Cordon Bleu Cookery Course. You are right if you are scratching your head in puzzlement! In fact, few would have expected the outgoing young woman to beat all records and become a super British style

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celebrity. Her critics would have thought it impossible for a convent educated lass from Cape Town to end up on programmes like "The Great British Menu", "My Kitchen Rules", "Junior Bake" and of course the "Great British Bake off!" Perhaps they convinced themselves she must have travelled down a wormhole to arrive on the British cookery scene in such style! After all, only an ET, or an Aquarius, could open a world class, Michelin starred restaurant, write numerous popular cook books and in 1974 launch her own cookery school before you could screech "Jack Robinson!"

She told SAGA magazine "I think it's important to be doing something or creating something!" Clearly, in her case "The proof is in the pudding!". The question is whether "that pudding" has something to do with Karma. Perhaps she learned how to make a delectable apple pie in some past life.

Musing aside, her extraordinary culinary gift has to come from somewhere. Perhaps it is to do with DNA, or then again, the astro might help us understand her rubric cube.

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Icing a Cake

With that sharp moon in Gemini, our Prue is certainly no dunce. She is, intellectually evolved and was gifted with more than a touch of organisational skills. To boot her charm and "simpatica" presentation could coax a "toad out of a hole". She is sensitive, her acute Gemini moon understands why icing a cake reduces the less talented to tears. In other words, she is no killjoy when your pancake flops. She loves people and wants to make them happy. Proved by her charitable actions; she is involved in food education and the "Investors in People" project. If our estimate is correct, her moon is in her Second House, so she will have a business head on her shoulders. She is definitely not "moony about money", her silver orb is placed in an unusually realistic position. In other words, she has no problem when it comes to abundance and certainly knows how to make good use of funds; she is a realist.

Her "real" is a typical English home. You know, lovely lawn and beamed ceilings. She remembers how she opted for a country house when she stood in a "big city" super market with two screaming toddlers and decided green was better than mean.

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We are all in this Together

She unsurprisingly informed "English Home" that the kitchen is her favourite room. Plus, her idealistic Aquarian perception of "we are all in this together" encapsulates her vision of happiness, with the smell of great cooking plus children, grandchildren and pets happily playing under her feet. She is probably content to write her books whilst travelling on trains and planes though. She must need alone time now and then; surely!

According to sensible astro calculations, it would be impossible for her Sun to land in any other place than her tenth house. The Tenth house "bestoweth" riches on its disciples after all. This placement helps the general public remember "greatness" and that "there is nothing like a dame!" In fact, nothing "looks" like a dame or "cooks" like a dame; "Not many people know that!".

By the way, if you see a dame in a red Maserati racing down the motorway, ask yourself "Now could that be Prue Leith" interpreting yet another aspect of her amazing personality? Those who know her would not be surprised, however her fans are absolutely convinced she will never give up on the fruit cake, no matter how fast she speeds down the highways of life..