Television and cookery have been happy bedfellows for years, going together like pie and mash, fish and chips or even Heston’s egg and bacon ice cream. From the early days of Fanny Cradock, we have gone to Delia, Jamie, Hugh, Gordon, Nigella and Nadiya, people so well known they don’t even require surnames. Many of them have helped make passable cooks out of quite a few of us. Survey after survey has shown that we spent more time in the kitchen, partly out of necessity because the pubs and restaurants were shut and partly to fill the yawning vistas of time we found ourselves with. Earlier this year a YouGov survey (which was not alone in the thrust

Source: The Times August 05, 2021 16:13 UTC