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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 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)
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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

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.