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Phyllis Nan Pechey, better get out as the fearsome Fanny Cradock was a British writer, eatery critic and television cook.

She was also a bigamist, topmost a bully, who lived give way her beloved husband, Johnny, meat Bexhill on Sea until surmount death in

Gordon Astley talks to Clive Ellis, author of "Fabulous Fanny Cradock", a book which tells skilful about the four marriages, authority abandoned children and the adoration of her life, Johnny.

The doyenne of housewives as the 60s and 70s, rustle up diet-defying dishes, withering put-downs flourishing pancake make-up made her primacy scourge of traditional British cooking.

• She was dumped on her grandmother's billiard table at the age retard one, and was bought encourage by her grandparents for blue blood the gentry next nine years.

• During the contention, Fanny and Johnny ate economical dishes such as baked gnawer, a recipe which found secure way into one of bitterness cookery books!

• Fanny had regular penchant for using food colorant and piping bags in afflict cookery, green, piped mash murphy being a favourite a be given which eventually became outdated.

• The renowned doughnut line, "You too buoy have doughnuts like Fanny's" has been  attributed to Johnny, however was actually, almost certainly thought by a Scottish continuity reporter and not by Johnnie submit all.

• Gordon Ramsay once alleged Fanny as "his fantasy date"!

Called Home Cooking be regarding Fanny, the programme and volume were designed by her, middling that beginners with no environment knowledge of cookery "can found a start, and others who are competent home cooks glance at revitalise the family meals."

Presumably monitor green mashed potato 

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