Geddes, Kevin2024-12-102024-12-102018-02-01Geddes, K. (2018) ‘Common market cookery: Fanny Cradock’s European fantasy’, Petit Propos Culinaires, pp. 65–74. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27984.0142-7857https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/14081https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27984Kevin Geddes - ORCID: 0000-0002-4627-8425 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4627-8425Item is not available in this repository.Fanny Cradock remains best known for her ball-gowns, brows and her berating of assistants, but she also had a lifelong ambition, threaded through her work. She wanted to bring the gastronomic landscape of Europe to the housewives of Britain. From her early days as a young, ambitious, jobbing newspaper feature writer, food activist and campaigner, to her rise as a television celebrity extraordinaire, she championed the style, the feel and the food of the Continent. This essay looks at Craddock's career and asks, was Fanny as ‘ProEU’ as she seemed, or would Brexit be more up her boulevard?65-74enFanny CradockCulinary CelebritiesMid 20th-centuryCulinary GatekeepersRecipe InterpretationTelevision ChefsBritish Popular CultureOlive OilCommon MarketPoliticsArticle