Fabulous Fanny Cradock

by Clive Ellis

Author	: Clive Ellis
Publisher	: The History Press
Total Pages	: 355
Release	: 2011-08-26
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 0752469711

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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.

Fabulous Fanny Cradock

by Clive Ellis

Author	: Clive Ellis
Publisher	: Sutton Publishing Limited
Total Pages	: 224
Release	: 2007
Genre	: Cooks
ISBN	: 9780750945455

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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 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'.

70s Dinner Party

by Anna Pallai

Author	: Anna Pallai
Publisher	: Random House
Total Pages	: 178
Release	: 2016-10-06
Genre	: Cooking
ISBN	: 1473546656

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'Spaghetti in aspic, anyone? Revel in astonishing dishes from yesteryear: Stuffed Cocktail Grapes, Savoury Sausage Salad, a spunky Shrimp-Salmon Mould and so much more. Anna Pallai was brought up on 1970s stalwarts of stuffed peppers, meatloaf and platters of slightly greying hardboiled eggs. When she rediscovered her mother's grease-stained 70s cookbooks, she knew she needed to share them with the world, and so the hit Twitter account @70s_Party was born. Harking back to a simpler pre-Instagram, pre-clean-eating era, when the only concern for your dinner party was whether your aspic would set in time, this is a joyful celebration of food that can give you gout just by looking at it. Covering all the essentials, from starters through to desserts, dinner party etiquette (just how does one start to eat a swan fashioned from a hardboiled egg?) and the dreaded 'foreign' food, there's no potato-fashioned-as-a-stone left unturned.

The Food Network Recipe

by Emily L. Newman

Author	: Emily L. Newman
Publisher	: McFarland
Total Pages	: 264
Release	: 2021-04-06
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1476643482

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When the Television Food Network launched in 1993, its programming was conceived as educational: it would teach people how to cook well, with side trips into the economics of food and healthy living. Today, however, the network is primarily known for splashy celebrity chefs and spirited competition shows. These new essays explore how the Food Network came to be known for consistently providing comforting programming that offers an escape from reality, where the storyline is just as important as the food that is being created. It dissects some of the biggest personalities that emerged from the Food Network itself, such as Guy Fieri, and offers a critical examination of a variety of chefs' feminisms and the complicated nature of success. Some writers posit that the Food Network is creating an engaging, important dialogue about modes of instruction and education, and others analyze how the Food Network presents locality and place through the sharing of food culture with the viewing public. This book will bring together these threads as it explores the rise, development, and unique adaptability of the Food Network.

The Vanishing of Margaret Small

by Neil Alexander

Author	: Neil Alexander
Publisher	: Embla Books
Total Pages	: 277
Release	: 2022-11-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 147141311X

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'So moving, so transporting, and so important' Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont 'A tender, thought-provoking and totally gripping novel from a wonderful storyteller...deserves to be a huge hit!' Matt Cain, author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken, Whitstable native and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her idol, Margaret begins receiving sums of money in the post, signed simply 'C'. She is convinced it must be Cilla, but how can it be? To solve the mystery of her benefactor Margaret must go back in her memories almost 70 years, to the time when she was 'vanished' to a long-stay institution for children with learning disabilities. An absorbing and page-turning mystery with a dual timeline, The Vanishing of Margaret Small takes readers into a fascinating past, and introduces an unforgettable literary heroine. Perfect for fans of Libby Page and Gail Honeyman. Praise for The Vanishing of Margaret Small: 'An evocative, endearing, entertaining and thoroughly delicious character portrait and a terrific first novel' Donal MacIntyre, TV presenter 'Heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time, and so authentic. I can't recommend it enough' Beth Moran, Take Me Home 'A captivating and charming story' Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget 'Funny, sad and uplifting all at once' Frances Quinn, The Smallest Man 'A beautiful story of human spirit and its power to thrive against the odds' Anstey Harris, When I First Held You 'A fantastic, feel-good story . . . rich in nostalgia and a joy to read' Matson Taylor 'Beautifully observed and poignant. An outstanding debut' Alex Brown 'Compelling and authentic . . . Margaret's story is quiet but her voice is mighty' Julietta Henderson

Three Ingredient Baking

by Sarah Rainey

Author	: Sarah Rainey
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Total Pages	: 208
Release	: 2018-03-22
Genre	: Cooking
ISBN	: 0718187598

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As heard on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Breakfast Show . . . Why not rival the Bake Off Professionals the simple way, with just three ingenious ingredients? ----------- · Make deliciously decadent golden shards of honeycomb to fold into ice cream or pile high on a showstopper cake. · Magically fluffy scones for a quintessentially quick cream tea. · Your very own slice of the tropics with dark chocolate and coconut bounty bars. · Or bake crisp, light-as-a-pillow palmier pastries. Delicious French 'palm trees' filled with cinnamon sugar. ----------- This book makes baking easier than you ever thought possible, with 100 surprising and brilliantly simple recipes for cakes, biscuits, breads, desserts, savoury bakes and frozen treats. No long lists of ingredients here! These are fast, fun and affordable recipes to suit busy lives, small budgets, total beginners, and anyone looking to whip up something delicious at the very last minute, including gluten- and guilt-free options. Once you discover the alchemy of Three Ingredient Baking, you won't look back. 'Being a star baker? It's so simple . . . recipes that use just three ingredients to make fabulous showstoppers without any fuss' Daily Mail 'We're amazed that you can make so many delicious cakes, bakes and puddings with just three ingredients' Good Food 'Have a sweet tooth but don't have the time or equipment for complicated baking? This book might just have the answer.' The Independent

A-Z of Bexhill-on-Sea

by Andy Bull

Author	: Andy Bull
Publisher	: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages	: 199
Release	: 2022-08-15
Genre	: Photography
ISBN	: 1398110744

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Explore the East Sussex seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

Own Label

by Jonny Trunk

Author	: Jonny Trunk
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2011
Genre	: Food
ISBN	: 9780956356284

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In 1962, when Peter Dixon joined the Sainsburys Design Studio, a remarkable revolution in packaging design began. The supermarket was developing its distinctive range of Own Label products, and Dixons designs for the line were revolutionary: simple, stripped down, creative, and completely different from what had gone before. Their striking modernity pushed the boundaries, reflecting a period full of optimism. They also helped to build Sainsburys into a brand giant, the first real Super market of the time. This book examines and celebrates this paradigm shift, which redefined packaging design, and led to the creation of some of the most original packaging ever seen. Produced in collaboration with the Sainsbury family and The Sainsbury Archive, the book reveals an astonishing and exhaustive body of work. A unique insight into what and how we ate, the packaging is presented using both scanned original flat packets and photographic records made at the time by the design team. An essential book for graphic designers and those interested in the culture of consumerism, these designs remain fresh and relevant today. This feast of nostalgia taps into the fond memories of a generation brought up on these beautifully packaged goods.

Family Britain, 1951-1957

by David Kynaston

Author	: David Kynaston
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages	: 717
Release	: 2010-12-01
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0802719643

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As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the art of grumbling. These and many other voices give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s. Well-known figures are encountered on the way, such as Doris Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John Arlott (sticking up on Any Questions? for the rights of homosexuals) and Tiger's Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring debut for Melchester). All this is part of a colourful, unfolding tapestry, in which the great national events - the Tories returning to power, the death of George VI, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis - jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavour: Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers, Hancock's Half-Hour, Ekco television sets, Davy Crockett, skiffle and teddy boys. Deeply researched, David Kynaston's Family Britain offers an unrivalled take on a largely cohesive, ordered, still very hierarchical society gratefully starting to move away from the painful hardships of the 1940s towards domestic ease and affluence.