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Fabulous Fanny Cradock: TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine (Hardcover)

by Clive Ellis (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd (1 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750945451
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750945455
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 208,636 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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'.


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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.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Baked hedgehog anyone?, 5 Nov 2007
By Ms. F. Weaver - See all my reviews
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I've always been fascinated by Fanny Cradock - the pearls, the dinner dresses, the green Duchesse potatoes, those eyebrows, the way she humiliated Johnny.....and I think this book is a wonderful homage to her. From those inauspicious beginnings as an abandoned baby on her grandmother's billiard table to her eventual invisibility in a nursing home, Clive Ellis paints a vivid picture of her extraordinary public life played out in those grand performances on the TV screen and her Bon Viveur road shows and gives us insight into her colourful and bittersweet private life. By the end of the book, I found myself feeling - to my amazement! - a sense of real affection towards Fanny, for the way in which she brought glamour and a sense of optimism into post-war sitting rooms, for the devoted relationship she shared with Johnnie, despite all the public humiliation and private rows, and for her 100% attitude! I also really like the way the book is presented - it's great fun to read, with lots of illustrations and lists. And the recipes are brilliant - baked hedgehog anyone?
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Outrageously Funny Queen of Cuisine, 22 Oct 2007
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Most people who watched televison in the 50's,60's and 70's will remember with amusement the double-act of ball-gowned Fanny, queen of cuisine, and her hen-pecked husband Johnnie in their cookery programmes. Clive Ellis brings it all to life again and had me laughing out loud and unable to put the book down.

He intermixes biography, recipes, articles, memorablia with witty journalistic style. He reveals a much more complex and human story behind the TV persona.

I still chuckle to myself over the anecdote of Fanny cooking with her feet in third ballet posiion so that if, god forbid, she happened to spill anything while cooking she would be able to rock backwards on her feet to protect her gown. No need for aprons we are told.

It would make a perfect Christmas gift for those difficult parents, aunties and uncles who remember her only too well.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars FANNY IS BACK - A MUST, 6 Sep 2007
AT LAST!! A book on Fanny Cradock with several receipes to boot. This is an excellent read (i did it in a day) and anamazing story. A long time coming but worth the wait.

Now, how about a reissue of her receipes??
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