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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Fanny Cradock was one of the first TV celebrity chefs. Rude, snobbish, and short-tempered, she was reviled, relished and admired in equal measure. While she 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 column in the Daily Telegraph, 'Bon Viveur' ran for 35 years and her cookery programmes - which she presented in evening gown, drop ear-rings, pearls, and thick make-up, booming orders at 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'. |
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System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
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Cradock, Fanny, 1909-1994.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
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Television personalities -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women television personalities -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Cooks -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women cooks -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Ellis, Clive, 1957- Fabulous Fanny Cradock. Stroud : Sutton, 2007. 9780750945455 (hbk.) : (Uk)013772873 |
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9780752469713 |
| ISBN |
9780752469713 (e-pub) |
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