Mad Cook
Master Chef
(For the uninitiated Fanny Craddock was a "lady" cook who, with her husband, Johnny, demonstrated cooking (wearing an evening gown, for heaven's sake!) on television in the UK in the 50s-70s).
I woke early on Christmas morning (excitement, I suppose) so I went downstairs to watch television. On the Food Network UK I watched several episodes of FC's Christmas shows from the mid '70s which I'd never seen. She was, by all accounts, a very unpleasant woman and is much maligned and ridiculed in Britain these days although a number of chefs and cookery writers acknowledge a debt to her. Watching her I was quite surprised at how sensible some of her comments were (and I discovered a way with choux pastry that solved problems I'd had with it in the past!).
I woke early on Christmas morning (excitement, I suppose) so I went downstairs to watch television. On the Food Network UK I watched several episodes of FC's Christmas shows from the mid '70s which I'd never seen. She was, by all accounts, a very unpleasant woman and is much maligned and ridiculed in Britain these days although a number of chefs and cookery writers acknowledge a debt to her. Watching her I was quite surprised at how sensible some of her comments were (and I discovered a way with choux pastry that solved problems I'd had with it in the past!).