It's All In The Booklet! Festive Fun with Fanny Cradock - Softcover

Geddes, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781963401 ISBN 13: 9781781963401

Publisher: Fantom Films Limited, 2019

Synopsis

Fanny Cradock. Christmas. They go together like mushrooms and turkeys. Mincemeat and omelettes. Choux buns and goo. But where can you find all her Fanny-tastic recipes? She rattles through them on screen so quickly, moving on to the next even before poor old Sara has a chance to whip away the still-needed spatulas… After all, Fanny tells us that there is no need to worry, it’s all in the booklet after all.

‘It’s all in the booklet!’ has become the catchphrase and social media hashtag most associated with the annual screenings of the classic Fanny Cradock series, Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas. Fans worldwide excitedly share their squeals of delight as Christmastime approaches. Stocks of green food-colouring diminish on the supermarket shelves. Hardware stores have an unexpected rush on those normally hard-to-sell garden secateurs. Trembling hands reach into wardrobes up and down the land to grab tightly onto the pink chiffon lurking within… but who has the elusive copies of the booklet?

Now, you really can join in. Watch the shows. Read all about the dishes. Plan the party. Raise your drawn-on eyebrows to the roof. Wrinkle your nose to the imaginary audience through the pretend camera lens.

It’s All in the Booklet – Festive Fun with Fanny, which has so much in it this year it’s really like a small book, provides a humorous romp-a-long with the Christmas classics, helping households to host their own Fanny Cradock-inspired Christmas soirées. Bringing Retro Back. For everyone.

With pictures from Fanny’s original 1970s photographer, Kevin Geddes, author of Keep Calm and Fanny On! The Many Careers of Fanny Cradock, guides us all through each episode to ensure we have the skills and knowledge to make a Fanny feast for your family, friends, or indeed for those nasty neighbours you never liked very much.

About this title

About the Author

Kevin grew up in a small town in the south-west of Scotland, a vivid 1970s world of bright orange kitchens, hallucinogenic yellow flower-patterned wallpaper and unexplainable blue iced birthday cakes – learning to cook from old books and from watching television cooking programmes. So, it’s no surprise he later became an obsessive Fanny Cradock fan, manically collecting and joyously celebrating all things Fanny. Realising there was nowhere on-line honouring Fanny Cradock, he set-up the blog, Keep Calm and Fanny On, dedicating a space to remember her in all her glory. Kevin has spent years cooking his way through her vibrant back catalogue and sharing the visual treats styled à la Cradock. The blog became a popular destination for lovers of all things retro, colourful and forgotten. Kevin has spent many years researching Fanny’s life, dedicating his Masters dissertation to uncovering her impact, which lay hidden for years following her death in her own archive. Kevin has had several Fanny Cradock articles published, regularly gives presentations at international conferences about Fanny Cradock and has recently started on the long road of researching a PhD, looking at the history and development of television cooking programmes. Kevin spends too much time on Twitter sharing his passion, his blue cakes and his reminisces about Fanny, establishing a strong community of people determined to Bring Retro Back and single-handedly saving the Glacé Cherry industry from bankruptcy. Kevin lives in Edinburgh with his long-suffering partner, who regularly enjoys the delights of Fanny Cradock that Kevin recreates. Sometimes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantom Films Limited
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781963401
• ISBN 13: 9781781963401
• Binding: Paperback