Jane Grigson Trust Bursary

The Trust's Bursary Scheme was introduced in 1999. The purpose of the awards is to encourage study and research into aspects of the field of food and cookery.

Recipients of awards include:

1999
Rosalind Rappaport for a study of the use of an improved design of solar oven by village housewives in the Gambia
Gillian Riley for research into into the origins and significance of edible letters of the alphabet in the still life paintings of a small group of 17th century European artists

2000
Mary Beith for a survey of the surviving diet and cookery in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

2001
Michael Michaud for an investigation of present-day vegetable and herb growing by immigrant communities in the UK

2002
Peter Lippitt to record the traditional food and cookery of the area of Britain known as the Black Country

2003
Susan Weingarten for an interdisciplinary historical study of the methods of food preparation in the Talmudic literature
Frances Short to examine the existing transmission of food skills from one generation to the next in the UK

Benefactors

For generous help and donations to the Jane Grigson Trust Bursary Fund, the Trustees thank:

Frances Bissell

Philippa Davenport

Wilma Norene Brockway

Lindsay Stewart

Donald Fergusson

Julian Shuckbrugh and Ebury Press

Roger Jupe of Richmond Towers Public Relations