Description
| Product ID: | 9781803995328 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Fabulous Fanny Cradock |
| Subtitle: | TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine |
| Authors: | Author: Clive Ellis |
| Subjects: | Television, Television, Biography: arts and entertainment, Gender studies: women and girls, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Biography: arts & entertainment, Gender studies: women, Cookery / food & drink etc, England, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The definitive biography of the controversial and fabulous Fanny Cradock While Fanny Cradock cut a controversial figure – berating Margaret Thatcher for wearing ‘cheap shoes and clothes’, writing off Eamonn Andrews as a ‘blundering amateur’ and famously being forced to apologise for insulting a housewife cook on The Big Time – her cookery programmes were enormously popular. Dressed in evening gown, drop earrings and pearls, donning thick make-up, she boomed orders to her partner Johnnie, a gentle, monocled stooge who was portrayed as an amiable drunk. The programmes were watched by millions and were hugely influential: the Queen Mother told Fanny that she and Johnnie 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 and illuminated by amusing facts and anecdotes, Fabulous Fanny Cradock paints a fun, entertaining portrait of this extraordinary woman. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-16 |