Background
Born in London, in 1938, she was the daughter of John and Alexandra Hopkinson.
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(In 1973 Marika Hanbury-Tenison followed up her expedition...)
In 1973 Marika Hanbury-Tenison followed up her expedition to Brazil, described in For Better, For Worse, with an even more hazardous journey to the islands of Indonesia. She and her husband Robin visited the Kubu tribes of Sumatra and the more remote people of the island of Siberut. They flew to Kalimantan (Borneo) to visit the Dayak peoples of the interior, the Celebes islands, the Moluccas and West Irian. In the course of her travels, she visited the 'navel of the world,' she took tea with former cannibals and journeyed into a magic land where no machines are allowed and no white man had ever before set foot. She travelled by plane, by jeep, by canoe, by pony and often on foot. She survived a virtual shipwreck, attacks by leeches, contracted a tropical disease, encountered a wild boar and a cassowary. All the songs, dances, spells and music, the food of the native communities, and the richness of a vanishing way of life, are recreated in her highly entertaining descriptions.
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Born in London, in 1938, she was the daughter of John and Alexandra Hopkinson.
She never had any formal domestic science training, but was interested in food from an early age, and learned cooking mainly by trial and error. They had two children, Lucy (b 1960) and Rupert (b 1970). Her husband was often away on an expedition, and Marika turned to writing in his absence.
She began by finding a job as a £1-a-week cookery writer for a local paper, and over the next fifteen years wrote thirty cookbooks and numerous magazine articles
She was cookery editor of the Sunday Telegraph from 1968 until her death in 1982, and also appeared frequently on Westward Television. After returning to England, Marika wrote Foreign Better, Foreign Worse: To the Brazilian Jungles and Back Again (1972), which was published in the United States with the title Tagging Along.
In 1973, the Hanbury-Tenisons followed up their journey to Brazil with a three-month visit to one to the islands of Indonesia. Marika visited about a dozen tribes, taking tea with former cannibals, swimming through swollen rivers, being attacked by leeches, surviving a shipwreck, and becoming ill and exhausted.
She wrote about the experience in A Slice of Spice, published in 1974.
The Hanbury-Tenisons made their last research trip together in 1979, when they visited Malaysia as part of a Royal Geographical Society scientific expedition. Shortly afterwards, Marika was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1982, at the age of forty-four.
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