Spanish chef and cookery author, Simone Ortega, died yesterday at the age of 89. Ortega was the author of 1,080 Recetas de Cocina which sold over 3 million copies, until his death in 2002 she was married to publisher José Ortega Spottorno, son of famous philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and founder of the Spanish daily newspaper El País.

Their daughter, Ines Ortega Klein, has followed in the footsteps of her mother to become something of a celebrity chef and is also a cookbook author.