By Paul Bentley PUBLISHED: 08:23 EST, 16 November 2012 | UPDATED: 15:50 EST, 16 November 2012 Clarissa Dickson Wright said visiting the city made her feel like a pariah and an outcast She is as renowned for her outspoken views as she is for her cooking. So when celebrity chef Clarissa Dickson Wright decided to write about her day out in a multi-cultural part of Leicester, she didn't mince her words. The former star of the BBC's Two Fat Ladies claimed a visit to the city, which has a large Muslim population, was 'the most frightening experience of her life'.
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Chef was 'surprised any of the people who might object could read what I wrote as it is written in English'
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She describes visit to the 'ghetto' after getting lost in traffic and found herself 'in an area where all the men were wearing Islamic clothing'
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But she says there's an upside — she's thankful for the large number of Asian restaurants in the city as 'you can eat excellent curry' there
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Her comments were criticised by the Muslim Council of Britain and the city's mayor, who claims her account 'may help sell books but it is cheap'
'None of the men would talk  to me when I tried to find out  where I was and how to get out of there because I was an @placeholder female and they don't talk to females they don't know, while if the women could speak English they weren't about to show it by having a word with me.