Fabulous Fanny Cradock: TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine
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- Synopsis
- While Fanny Cradock berated Margaret Thatcher for wearing ‘cheap shoes and clothes’, wrote off Eamonn Andrews as a ‘blundering amateur’, and famously was forced to apologise for insulting another TV cook, her cookery programmes - which she presented in evening gown, drop ear-rings, pearls, and thick make-up, booming orders to her partner Johnnie, a gentle, monocled stooge who was portrayed as an amiable drunk, were watched by millions. They were hugely influential: the Queen Mother told Fanny that they were ‘mainly responsible’ for the improvement in catering standards since the war; Keith Floyd declared that ‘she changed the whole nation’s cooking attitudes’; for Esther Rantzen ‘she created the cult of the TV chef’. Lavishly illustrated, this is a fun, entertaining portrait of this infamous woman.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 224 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780752469713
- Publisher:
- The History Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/04/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Clive Ellis
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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