The 6 episodes of our summer series –
From Montandon to Maïté, the pioneers of culinary TV
Small screen and large clods of butter: portraits of six precursors of the television kitchen.
Maïté, a Gasconne and Gouailleuse of the French Culinary TV, disappeared last December.
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A few decades before the appearance of “top chef”, even before the birth of Cyril Lignac, we were already cooked on TV. Black and white, TV, perched on a heedy of the living room with a tablecloth on it. These first culinary shows therefore, they tell us another world and another cuisine. Women are applied housewives. Or pumpkin blondes. Butter and cream lead the culinary ball, with good little dishes that today seem of a gargantuan calorie richness.
These culinary TV precursors are characters as we hardly meet in the skylight. They have novel lives and earthy verb, impossible looks and the innocence of pioneers. The proof in six portraits.
Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec, countess and gourmette
Aristocrat of the stoves, she experienced renown thanks to her domestic recipes and her tasty gauge. Read our article by clicking ici.
Jacques Montandon, butter in the tsr
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“Maître Jacques”, self -taught cook, Neuchâtel and Calorique, heated years during the gas in French TV. Read our article by clicking ici.
Julia Child, a giant stove in the kitchen
Julia Child plays a corkscrew in the cult show “The French Chief”.
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Cordon-blue with romantic existence and explosive gaiety, it converted America to French gastronomy. CAUTION: Grande Lady! Read our article by clicking ici.
Fanny Cradock, Cruel BBC diva
Odious, eccentric and flamboyant, she reigned not without plume on British cuisine for twenty years. Read our article by clicking ici.
Raymond Oliver and Catherine Langeais, beautiful retro duo
Paternalistic atmosphere and virile recipes; The archetypal tandem of television cuisine Scotché les Français to their skylight from 1964 to 1967. Read our article by clicking ici.
Maïté, bacon and the way
Maïté in action, for its 70th anniversary, in its Landes inn.
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The most earthy of the television cooks leaves many cult sequences. Tribute and chosen songs. Read our article by clicking ici.
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