Keep calm and Fanny on : the many careers of Fanny Cradock with Kevin Geddes

Mention the name ‘Fanny Cradock’ to anyone, young or old, and they tend to simply snigger, make an innuendo-heavy reference to doughnuts or squirm at the thought of long-forgotten meals disguised under layer-upon-layer of ever-increasingly bizarre food-colourings and flourishes of garnish. She is, at least, remembered.
She was hard to forget. Her legacy collapsed faster than you could say ‘freshly baked soufflé’ when she died twenty-five years ago. It became popular to talk her down; laughing at her appearance captured as if in aspic on TH-cam, discussing the ‘shocking’ way she treated her assistants and husband-come-sidekick, Johnnie, repeating rumours that she ‘couldn’t cook anyway’, was rude to everyone she ever met and spent her days swanning around her kitchen in elaborate ball-gowns barking orders as she went.
Kevin Geddes is an author, PhD Student, consultant and all-round multi-tasker with more than a passing fascination with Fanny Cradock. Kevin’s biography of Fanny Cradock, Keep Calm and Fanny On - The Many Careers of Fanny Cradock was published in 2019. Kevin is currently working on a follow-up title.
This event was presented by Marylebone Library on 24 March 2021
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