Fun With Food
| Fun With Food | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cooking |
| Presented by | Geraldine Dillon |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nine Network |
| Release | 1960 – 1971 |
Fun With Food was a television cooking program that screened on the Nine Network in Australia between 1960 and 1971. The compere of the program was cooking expert Geraldine Dillon.
History
Fun With Food was a half hour television cooking show made in Melbourne and screened nationally every week-day on the Nine Network in the 1960s.[1] Each episode featured the host demonstrating how to prepare several different dishes, drawing on various national cuisines and using a variety of cooking methods.[2] It was one of the first television cooking series after television began in Australia in 1956.
The compere was Melbourne-born culinary expert
Dillon later hosted another television show for the Nine network.[4] It was called TV Kitchen and was a cooking show that ran for 15 minutes and was screened once a week on the Nine Network from February 1971 till 1976.
References
- ^ "TV Cookery Star To Compere Bake-Off". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 36, no. 17. Australia. 25 September 1968. p. 60. Retrieved 4 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ Basile, Fiona (29 June 2012). "Time out with Geraldine Dillon". Melbourne Catholic. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "An Adventurous New TV Cookery Series". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 38, no. 39. Australia. 24 February 1971. p. 15. Retrieved 4 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
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