The food writer and chef Olivia Potts joins the Slightly Foxed editors for a literary banquet. Olivia was a barrister for five years before enrolling at Le Cordon Bleu, becoming a cookery columnist on...Show More
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epekilis recommended:Dec 13th, 2020
Recommending for the section from 1:50 - 4:54; howlingly funny. It’s about Fanny Cradock - who appears to have hosted an eccentric BBC TV cooking show with her henpecked husband Johnny in the 1960s - and who also wrote a haphazard weekly food column in the Daily Telegraph. I immediately had to Goo...Show More
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epekilisDec 13th, 2020
I’ve spent too much time this morning reading about Fanny Cradock and looking up the scant few videos that survived to YouTube. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/09/16/the-off-kilter-history-of-british-cuisine/
epekilisDec 13th, 2020
Oh, Ye gods, somebody wrote a play about her called “Fear of Fanny”, which was produced by the BBC in 2006. Julia Davis plays Fanny; her husband Johnny was played by Mark Gatiss of Sherlock fame. I checked Netflix and Apple and can’t find it on there, but it appears to be available on YouTube: h...Show More