The former home of forthright television cook Fanny Cradock has been put up for sale with a £5m asking price. Cradock presented her shows from the kitchen of Grade II listed Dower House, on the ...

The original grande dame of English cookery television, Cradock swept onto screens in the 1950s with theatrical flair. Draped in pearls and shoulder pads, she transformed the British kitchen into a ...

The national TV encounter between celebrity cook Fanny Cradock and Devon housewife Gwen Troake was described as “Cruella de Vil meets Bambi” by presenter Esther Rantzen, and we all know which of those ...

Seventies TV chef Fanny Cradock was an original when it came to showcasing her culinary skills to her adoring fans on the small screen. And at the time, she dominated the airwaves and led a lifestyle ...

Fanny Cradock, who won a niche in British social history by teaching luxury-starved Britons to cook better after the austere years of World War II, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in East Sussex, ...

Julia Davis is to play Fanny Cradock in a new BBC Four drama about Britain’s first celebrity chef. And starring opposite her as Cradock’s much-maligned husband Johnnie is the League of Gentlemen’s ...

Fanny Cradock was once the queen of British cookery — flamboyant, feared, and firmly in charge. But decades after she ruled the BBC airwaves in a ballgown and pearls, the original celebrity chef died ...

MYTHS and truths link two solo shows to be staged in The Studio at York Theatre Royal next week by Fine Time Fontayne and his partner Sandra Hunt. The plays are Dave Sheasby's Cubist comedy Trimming ...