#TIL that #PeterRussellClarke, the affably bearded, foul-mouthed TV chef of ‘Come and Get It’ and ‘Where’s The Cheese’ 1980s fame, began his career as a professional cartoonist!

(This might not be news to older readers.)

He only got into the foodie thing because he would invite friends and business contacts to his #Carlton studio for lunch, which he cooked. He had his first TV chef gig on ‘The Don Lane Show’ in 1970.

Ohhhh, this makes sense of the fact that the opening credits of ‘Come and Get It’ featured a caricature of PRC, and his cookbooks had little cartoons in them. They were his work!

This is the second big revelation I have had about PRC after realising as an adult that the line from the ‘Come and Get It’ theme was “Feed your ego”; as a kid I had puzzled a lot over what “Feed your eagle” meant.

https://www.cartoonists.org.au/blog/2018/12/12/peter-russell-clarke

#Australia #TV #nostalgia #1980s #Gday