Fanny Cradock

Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey (26th February 1909 - 27th December 1994), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer who mostly worked with John "Johnnie" Cradock, whose surname she adopted long before they married. She was the daughter of the novelist and lyricist Archibald Thomas Pechey. Fanny's family background was one of respectable middle-class trade; her ancestors included the Pecheys corn merchants and churchmen, the Vallentines distillers, and the Hulberts cabinet makers.