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Cooking for Churchill

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Food historian Annie Gray tells the story of Georgina Landemare, who became Winston Churchill’s cook during the Second World War. Her career offers fascinating insights into the dining habits of the wartime leader and the nation as a whole. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9

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1:01.8

I'm Alecawthorthorthne. The guest on today's podcast is the author, broadcaster and food historian Annie Gray.

1:12.5

Annie's latest book is Victory in the Kitchen, The Life of Churchill's Cook, which is a biography of Georgina Landemar, who whipped up meals for the Prime Minister for more than 15 years. We discussed what it was like to work for Winston Churchill and some of the most

1:18.2

delicious and also revolting gastronomic trends of the 20th century. Your new book is a biography of

1:25.0

Georgina Landemar, a cook who worked for Winston Churchill and his family for many years.

1:30.5

Can you introduce us, first of all, before we go any further, to your subject and why she's such an interesting woman to look at?

1:39.4

Georgina Landemar was Winston Churchill's cook, yes, and that I suppose is the kind of key thing

1:45.3

about her, and it's certainly the reason that she is interesting to a lot of people. For me,

1:49.3

she's interesting well beyond that, because her lifespan such a huge part of the 20th century.

1:55.1

She was born in 1882, she died in 1978, and I wrote the book partly because I thought Churchill's quite an interesting

2:02.3

topic. He never goes out of fashion. And from a sort of commercial point of view, you do have to

2:06.5

write a book that will ultimately sell. But also because I wanted to write about domestic service

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