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“Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976 (2023)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2023). “Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976. Food and Foodways, 31(3), 219-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2023.2228034

This paper provides a historical analysis to demonstrate the connections and developmental links which emerged between cookbooks and television in Britain after World War II, focused on television broadcasts in the period 1946 and 1976. In this paper... Read More about “Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976.

‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s (2022)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2022). ‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s. Critical Studies in Television, 17(3), 254-268. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221103469

Cooking on television after WWII mainly addressed ‘the housewife’ audience, while women themselves were presenting television cooking programmes. History has largely forgotten the presenter Joan Robins, who appeared alongside Philip Harben and Margue... Read More about ‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s.

“The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Geddes, K. (2022). “The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain. In A. Tominc (Ed.), Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe: Impact on Postwar Foodways. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429327995-2

The proliferation of television cooking programmes can be seen as a ‘modern’ phenomenon (see Collins, 2009; DeBacker and Hudders, 2015; DeSolier, 2005; Ketchum, 2005), with only a light knowledge of their history in Britain documented. Much of the re... Read More about “The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain.

A Conceit of Coney: Philip Harben and Britain’s First Television Food History Programme (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Geddes, K. (2021). A Conceit of Coney: Philip Harben and Britain’s First Television Food History Programme. In Food & Imagination: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2021

We almost take for granted today that ‘food history’ on television is a commonplace and well-established genre of its own, with programmes taking us back to imagine food production and consumption through the ages. We think nothing of seeing Annie Gr... Read More about A Conceit of Coney: Philip Harben and Britain’s First Television Food History Programme.

For the Housewife? From ‘The Singing Cook’ to ‘Common-Sense Cookery’: The First (Distrupted) Twenty Years of Television Cooking Programmes in Britain (1936-1955) (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Geddes, K. (2020). For the Housewife? From ‘The Singing Cook’ to ‘Common-Sense Cookery’: The First (Distrupted) Twenty Years of Television Cooking Programmes in Britain (1936-1955). https://doi.org/10.21427/fv5b-ww74

The first television broadcasts in Britain were beamed to affluent households in London on the second of November 1936. The first cooking programmes followed two weeks later. Television, initially seen as a ‘disruption’ to the routines of home life a... Read More about For the Housewife? From ‘The Singing Cook’ to ‘Common-Sense Cookery’: The First (Distrupted) Twenty Years of Television Cooking Programmes in Britain (1936-1955).

The discursive construction of class and lifestyle: celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist Slovenia: by Ana Tominc, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2017, 177 pp., ISBN 978-90-272-0666-4 (2020)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2020). The discursive construction of class and lifestyle: celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist Slovenia: by Ana Tominc, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamin Publishing Company, 2017, 177 pp., ISBN 978-90-272-0666-4. Food, Culture and Society, 23(3), 454-455. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2020.1718409

It's All In the Booklet: Fanny Cradock's Power as a Pioneer TV Celebrity Chef and How She Used It to Transform Cooking Shows on the BBC (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Geddes, K. (2018). It's All In the Booklet: Fanny Cradock's Power as a Pioneer TV Celebrity Chef and How She Used It to Transform Cooking Shows on the BBC

The development of cooking shows on television, and the rise in powerful, influential, bankable ‘celebrity chefs’ is often seen as a modern phenomenon involving cooks like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson in Britain. Fanny Cradock (1909–1994) is credi... Read More about It's All In the Booklet: Fanny Cradock's Power as a Pioneer TV Celebrity Chef and How She Used It to Transform Cooking Shows on the BBC.

Above all, garnish and presentation: An evaluation of Fanny Cradock's contribution to home cooking in Britain (2017)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2017). Above all, garnish and presentation: An evaluation of Fanny Cradock's contribution to home cooking in Britain. International journal of consumer studies, 41(6), 745-753. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12387

The development of cooking on television, and the associated rise in ‘celebrity chefs’ is often seen as a modern phenomenon involving cooks like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson in Britain. Fanny Cradock (1909–1994) is from time to time credited as a... Read More about Above all, garnish and presentation: An evaluation of Fanny Cradock's contribution to home cooking in Britain.