Early Television Cookbooks & Tie-ins with Kevin Geddes

<p>Neil talks to returning guest Kevin Geddes. He told us all about the wonderful, fabulous Fanny Cradock, but today he is talking to me about Television Cookery Shows and their cookbook tie-ins. Kevin wrote a very interesting paper on the early history and origins of TV Cookbooks, and Neil found it so interesting, and he thought you would find it interesting too.</p><p>We talked about the early cooking programmes on the BBC before the war, and afterwards; the post-war TV cooks the theatrical Philip Harben and the steady pair of hands Marguerite Patten and how they published their own books whilst working for the BBC; the BBC’s worry about selling commercial products whilst being a public service broadcaster; and the one who really got it all going Mrs Fanny Cradock. </p><p>Kevin’s <em>Food and Foodways </em>paper: <a href="https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/output/3133885/accompanying-the-series-early-british-television-cookbooks-1946-1976" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/output/3133885/accompanying-the-series-early-british-television-cookbooks-1946-1976</a></p><p><br></p><p>Find Kevin on twitter, Instagram and Threads @keepcalmandfannyon</p><p>Kevin’s blog: <a href="https://keepcalmandfannyon.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://keepcalmandfannyon.blogspot.com/</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Clip of Philip Harben demonstrating boiling techniques: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-tapF1kgU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-tapF1kgU</a> </p><p>Clip of Marguerite Patten inducing a show from the 1950s: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgG9oMq4l2U" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgG9oMq4l2U</a> </p><p>Clip of Fanny Cradock demonstrating fish cookery: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQJ8GnDsiw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQJ8GnDsiw</a> </p><p>Delia Smith’s <em>Complete Cookery Course<