About the author, Delora Jones       Home Page       

  Delora Jones and Anita Montanile, London, May 2011.

Delora Jones moved to England in 1991, with only a flimsy understanding of British English but since then, she has learned and continues to learn British English.  She is a cookery writer and home-cook, and, for a number of years, edited and 'Americanized' other publishers' cookery (and other) books which were originally published in the UK, in preparation for their North American publication. 

From 2015 until the Covid-19 pandemic, Delora ran Glencoe House B&B, and continued to do so sporadically after the various Covid Lock-down lifts.  

Please note:  Glencoe House B&B is closed, until further notice.
Cookery sessions in the Glencoe House kitchen are also on hold until further notice.    

Delora has been a member of the Burton Civic Society since the last century, a society that exists to preserve  that which is good about Burton, and to improve that which is not.   In 2015,  after seeing a house extension cover the whole of a neighbour's back garden, blocking the light to another garden, she wrote an article for the Burton Civic Society newsletter, highlighting the fact that current planning laws regarding back-garden extensions want reining in.  

In 2012 and 2013, Delora, along with others, worked tirelessly to try to persuade Burton Council to reconsider their plans for Burton Market Hall and Market Square, but to no avail.  

In early 2019, Delora contracted a severe virus whilst en route to visit family.  She never fully recovered, 
and lives now with chronic exhaustion.  Her energies go towards managing her day-to-day life, hoping that one day, her condition might at last go into remission and that she could then resume living and not simply being.  
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