The One Show on TV chefs......

[janzman]

Ive just been watching Adrian and Christine doing a feature on TV chefs.The piece went 'all the way back' to Delia Smith in the seventies with a cursory nod to Fanny Craddock from the sixties for being the birthplace of TV cooking as entertainment.Well for a start the first TV chef was Philip Harbin in the 1950s and the first female TV chef was Marguarite Patten from a similar time. There was no mention of the first truly watchable and-unlike Delia- exiting chef who must surely have been Graham Kerr- The Galloping Gourmet .. well I think so .anyway...LOL

[carlton23]

I remember P H well, he really knew his onions, and looked a bit like one also. Don`t remember M P tho ,or G K. Well, I was only 15 in 1950 and the main cook in my life was me mammy.RIP

[warpig3]

oh the Galloping Gourmet was brilliant, they were showing repeats on one of the freeview channels a few years ago, great viewing and no concern for calories, fats, etc, ahh, bliss.

[Mr Veritas]

I too remember Phillip Harben,see here:~
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page= gr&GRid=6588

I also remember Marguerite Patten,who is still alive at age 94,and was on "Good Morning" last year.I suppose she could be called the 1st TV cook?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Patten

[warpig3]

poodi, I checked him out on the internet a while ago, he is still going but much, much more health conscious now.