All Outputs (3)

A Conceit of Coney: Philip Harben and Britain’s First Television Food History Programme (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Geddes, K. (2021, July). A Conceit of Coney: Philip Harben and Britain’s First Television Food History Programme. Presented at Food & Imagination: Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2021, Online

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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).

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.