Beatles legend Paul McCartney told Terry Wogan on his primetime TV show in 1989. “I do, yeah,” admitted the chatshow host as the audience tittered.Today, it is Linda and her family who have the last laugh.
Her pioneering meat-free cookery book Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking – the reason she went on Wogan – became a bestseller in the UK and America.
It was such a publishing sensation that it led to the creation in 1991 of Linda McCartney Foods, her frozen ready-made range of sausages, burgers and meatballs made from textured vegetable protein.Three decades on, it remains one of the most successful celebrity food brands ever.Her eldest daughter, Mary McCartney, like her mother, aphotographer and green activist, is sad her mother didn’t live.
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