Clarissa Spencer-Churchill also worked for the short-lived monthly magazine "Contact", established by George (later Lord) Weidenfeld and edited by Philip Toynbee. Weidenfeld was keen to expand into book publishing and "Contact", which appeared with a hard cover, offered a means of circumventing post-war paper quotas. Among those Clarissa persuaded to contribute to the magazine was the cookery writer Elizabeth David, whose recipes became very influential in the 1950s. Through Weidenfeld she also became a close friend of Marcus Sieff, later Chairman of the retailer Marks and Spencer.