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Episode 137: Dione Lucas: Television’s First Celebrity Chef

Episode 137: Dione Lucas: Television’s First Celebrity Chef

FromA Taste of the Past


Episode 137: Dione Lucas: Television’s First Celebrity Chef

FromA Taste of the Past

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Who was televisions first cooking star? If you guessed Julia Child, you must be forgetting Dione Lucas! This week on A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Australian author and food historian Jill Adams to talk about the life of Dione Lucas. Also in the studio is Margaret Happel Perry, the president of the New York chapter of Les Dames dEscoffier. Tune into this episode to find out why Dione Lucas has not necessarily been remembered favorably. How did Dione Lucas help popularize television in Australia? Learn how the advertising schemes of the 1950s have made it impossible to syndicate Dione Lucas cooking shows. This program has been sponsored by Bonnie Plants. Thanks to The California Honeydrops for todays musical break. She absolutely insisted that the food be genuine. It was great, and something our readers really connected with. [8:45] -- Margaret Happel Perry on A Taste of the Past I think that you tell a great story by dragging things out of the closet. There are a lot of things unknown about Dione Lucas. [12:50] -- Jill Adams on A Taste of the Past
Released:
May 30, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Linda Pelaccio, a culinary historian, takes a weekly journey through the history of food on A Taste of the Past. Tune in for interviews with authors, scholars and culinary chroniclers who discuss food culture from ancient Mesopotamia and Rome to the grazing tables and deli counters of today. Each week Linda explores the lively link between food cultures of the present and past.