In the U.S., where it made its debut in 1997, “Two Fat Ladies” helped grease Food Network’s ascent to a cable TV powerhouse, earning top prime-time ratings that made Dickson Wright and co-host Jennifer Paterson bona fide, if improbable, celebrities.īoth lard-loving English cooks of bounteous build with posh accents and salty tongues, they were filmed traveling the English countryside in a vintage motorcycle and sidecar to cook for priests, choirboys, farmhands, lacrosse players, even men who cleaned up after elephants. It quickly became an immense hit - on both sides of the Atlantic. “I found it very hard to believe,” she later wrote, “and thought perhaps it might be a cult series with a moderate but good audience. When the offbeat BBC cooking show “Two Fat Ladies” was given a green light in 1996, costar Clarissa Dickson Wright did not have the highest hopes.
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