Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe

<p>This collection critically examines the role of food programming on European early television and the impact this might have had on food habits and identities for the European audiences. It foregrounds various food programme genres from travelog cooking show and TV cooking competition to more artistic forms. For the first time it examines in one place eight European countries from Portugal to Czechoslovakia and Britain to France and Yugoslavia to explore ways in which television contributed to culinary change demonstrating differences and similarities in which early food programme in Europe shaped and promoted progress modernity gender and national identities in both Eastern and Western Europe.</p><p>Featuring a number of archival images that illustrate early food programme visually this collection complements other research into postwar food history adding a perspective of visual medium that is often neglected. As such it should be interesting for food and media historians as well as those interested in European postwar history and culture.</p>