Hudson & Halls: the food of love / Joanne Drayton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2018Description: 292 pages : colour illustrations, photographs ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1988531268
- 9781988531267
- Hudson and Halls
- Food of love
- 641.50922 23
- TX649.A1 D73 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- 1. Prologue: 1992 -- 2. David's youth: 1936-59 -- 3. Peter's youth & a visit to New Zealand: 1931-62 -- 4. Shoes, ships & stonewall: 1962-70 -- 5. Julius Garfinkel & Quagg's: 1971-74 -- 6. Speakeasy & the birth of Hudson and Halls: 1974-76 -- 7. Hudson and Halls & an oyster and fish restaurant: 1976-79 -- 8. Cooks, farmers & entertainers: 1980-82 -- 9. Ratings, rejections & the BBC: 1983-87 -- 10. London & beginnings, middles and ends: 1988-92 -- 11. Denouement: 19993 -- 12. Pstscript: 2001-17.
"Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctant role models for a ̀don't ask, don't tell' generation of gay men and women who lived by omission. They were also captains of a culinary revolution that saw the overthrow of Aunty Daisy and Betty Crocker and the beginnings of Pacific-rich, Asian-styled international cuisine. Their drinking, bitching and bickering on screen, their spontaneous unchoreographed movements across the stage that left cameras and startled production staff exposed broke taboos and melted formalities. They captivated an unlikely bunch of viewers, from middle-aged matrons to bush-shirted blokes. Hudson and Halls were pioneers of celebrity television who rocketed to stardom on untrained talent and a dream"--Publisher's website.
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