For the Housewife? From ‘The Singing Cook’ to ‘Common-Sense Cookery’: The First (Disrupted) Twenty Years of Television Cooking Programmes in Britain (1936-1955)

Abstract

Television cooking programmes are ubiquitous on the established institutions’ television channels, dedicated food channels and online. They have become a popular focus for research in recent years, this research often exploring their impact on audiences, societies and cultures. Much of this research examines programmes produced and broadcast during and following the 1990s. These programmes are often readily available to view as they have been stored and archived by the broadcasting institutions themselves, or recorded at home by audiences and subsequently shared on platforms such as YouTube.