Legacy
The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) has created the Jane Grigson Award in her honour.
Her personal collection of books on food and cooking forms the core of the Jane Grigson Library, housed at Oxford Brookes University.
It is alleged that it was Grigson who first popularised the idea that if a mussel's shell does not open during cooking, it is in some way unhealthy, and should not be eaten. However, this is now held to be a misconception, albeit an extremely popular one: after the fact was published in a book of Grigson's in the 1970s, it was mentioned in 90% of all cookery books by 1990. It is now thought that the opposite is in fact true, and that if a shell remains closed after the cooking process, a mussel has less chance of being "off" than if it opens.
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