Prompted by the passing of legendary British TV cooking show host Keith Floyd (see Sept. 15th post), Patrick West of spiked muses about the evolution of television cooking shows in Britain and Ireland and how they reflect attitude shifts towards food, often based on economic realities. In one of his final paragraphs, what West writes resonates with what I write at the end of WWWE: “The substance of our cookery programmes will change. I predict a little less frivolity, but a complete return to the austerity of the pre-Floyd era will be tempered by our underlying culture, not society’s overlying economics. For our culture does remain celebrity-orientated.”

Take a gander at Floyd engaged in the out-of-studio cooking instruction for which he was so well-known:

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