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Marguerite Patten has described Fanny Cradock as the saviour of British cooking after the war.

Brian Turner has said that he respects Fanny's career and Delia Smith has attributed her own career to early inspirations taken from the Cradocks ' television programmes.

Others are less complimentary and in the BBC series How We Used To Cook in an episode dedicated to Cradock and Graham Kerr, Keith Floyd and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, amongst others, were very disparaging in regard to her method and cooking skill.

Despite their extravagant appearance and novelty value, her recipes were extremely widely used and her cookery books sold in record numbers.

In the third series of The F Word, Gordon Ramsay held a series-long search for a new Fanny Cradock.