Doris Grant

Doris Margaret Louise Grant, née Cruikshank (25 January 1905 – 27 February 2003) was a British nutritionist and food writer, the inventor of the wartime Grant loaf.

Life Grant was born in Banff, Aberdeenshire on 25 January 1905 to William and Adeline Cruickshank. She was educated first at Banff Academy, and then attended the Glasgow School of Art where she had won a scholarship to study in Rome as the top student of the year. however the scholarship was removed after she had become engaged to her future husband Gordon Grant. Grant married on 8 November 1927 and soon afterwards moved to London, where her husband Gordon Grant set up the new London office for his family firm, William Grant, the distillers. Doris Grant (1956), Dear Housewives, London:Faber & Faber Doris Grant (1973), Your Daily Food. London:Faber & Faber Doris Grant with Jean Joice (1984), Food Combining for Health, Doris Grant (1995)"Food Combining for life: the health success of the century"