Receta Why I Loved Ready Steady Cook

A friend sent a challenge to a Whatsapp group I’m part of the other day that read: ‘top 3 cooking programmes – go.’ Some of us went for Two Fat Ladies and Far Flung Floyd, others Come Dine With Me and The Trip. I felt I had to include Ready Steady Cook… let me explain RSC was pretty ridiculous but oh, I was obsessed. Every afternoon after school in the early ’90’s I’d be curled into my dad’s armchair glued to Fern Britton asking the audience if it would be Green Peppers or Red Tomatoes. The triumphant, trumpeting theme tune would start and I would always have a snack in For those with hazy memories the show pit two chefs against each other – one in the Green Pepper kitchen and the other the Red Tomato. Two ‘contestants’ would…