Fabulous Fanny Cradock

TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine

Clive Ellis, Antony Worrall Thompson

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The History Press Ltd
16 November 2023

Television; Biography: arts & entertainment; Gender studies: women; Cookery, food & drink

The definitive biography of the controversial and fabulous Fanny Cradock.

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.

AUTHOR: Clive Ellis is a freelance journalist who writes regularly for the Daily telegraph. His first book, 'C.B. The Life of Charles Burgess Fry', won the Cricket Society's Silver Jubilee Literary Award. He lives in Greenwich.

32 colour, 120 b/w illustrations

By: Clive Ellis
Foreword by: Antony Worrall Thompson
Imprint: The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781803995328
ISBN 10: 1803995327
Publication Date: 16 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clive Ellis is a freelance journalist who writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph. His first book, C.B. The Life of Charles Burgess Fry, won the Cricket Society's Silver Jubilee Literary Award. He lives in Greenwich.