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}} Mary-Rosa Alleyne Berry, CBE (born 24 March 1935) is an English food writer and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering and institutional management at college. She then moved to France at the age of 21 to study at Le Cordon Bleu school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs. She has published more than 75 cookery books (her first being ''The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook'' in 1970) and hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to ''Woman's Hour'' and ''Saturday Kitchen''. She has been a judge on the BBC One (originally BBC Two) television programme ''The Great British Bake Off'' since its launch in 2010. ==Early life== Mary Berry was born on 24 March 1935, the second of three children, to Alleyne William Steward Berry and his wife Margaret ('Marjorie'), née Wilson. Alleyne was a surveyor and planner who served as Mayor of Bath in 1952 and was closely involved in establishing the University of Bath at Claverton Down. Coincidentally, Mary's great-great-grandfather on her father's side, Robert Houghton, in the 1860s was a master baker who provided bread for a local workhouse in Norwich.〔("Mary Berry: A long line of determined business people that had tremendous energy and drive..." ), The Genealogist, 11 September 2014.〕 Her mother Marjorie was a housewife, who, on occasion, helped Berry's father with bookkeeping.〔 Her mother died in 2011 aged 105.〔Nick McGrath, "(Mary Berry: My family values )", ''The Guardian'', 3 November 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2014.〕 At the age of 13, Mary Berry contracted poliomyelitis and had to spend three months in hospital. This resulted in her having a twisted spine, a weaker left hand and thinner left arm. She has said that the period of forced separation from her family while in hospital "toughened () up" and taught her to make the most of every opportunity she would have. Berry attended Bath High School, where she described her academic abilities as "hopeless" until she attended domestic science classes with a teacher called Miss Date, who was particularly encouraging of her cooking abilities. Her first creation in the class was a treacle sponge pudding which she took home, and her father told her that it was as good as her mother's.〔 She then studied catering and institutional management at Bath College of Domestic Science.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Berry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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