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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).

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