Two Fat Ladies

As a cooking show, this may not fit all tastes. Not politically correct by any means, all dishes are loaded with butter or lard and many contain almost radioactive doses of anchovies. The dishes are british comfort food geared toward that audience. But the title tells what you need to see this for-those lusty ladies. Two old party gals that will take you to a different british setting each program while serving up not only a beautiful meal to diverse people such as ambassadors, barristers, lumberjacks and boyscouts but also dishing out stories, song and their own point of view on life. They may be fat, but they are PHAT!

This set of DVD's is a pure delight. We live in an America where everything is sanitized, pretty, and size 6 or smaller. Here are two fat ladies who tool around on a motorcycle with a side car, meet interesting people while seeing their country, and throw together some pretty amazing dinner parties. They aren't pretty, they aren't glamorous, and they have fun being themselves without worrying about what anybody else thinks. And clearly, the people that they encounter along the way enjoy the experience! What a great lesson in life!

I always loved their TV cooking shows, and was saddened when Jennifer passed away. I've been hoping there would be re-runs, but I think Clarissa would probably have been against it as a result of her friend's death. So this is a great way to remember them and the show, the incredible dishes they prepared, and great tours of parts of the UK. Enjoy!!

The best word I could use to describe this show is, "delightful". I adore Clarissa and Jennifer, and look forward to enjoying this set for many many years.

I'm annoyed that the price of the set went down $11 the day after they shipped mine. The prices on Amazon fluctuate like the stock market. Regardless, even at full list price it is worth every penny.

Just received my DVD's of Two Fat Ladies. I was heartbroken when their show went off the air, and mostly so when Jennifer Patterson died of lung cancer. A sad ending to an incredibly delightful duo of chefs. You can't find a cooking show that comes close to the antics of these two "fat" ladies, and the fact that they could make fun of themselves and vegetarians. They cooked the way my grandmother Belle did on the family farm in Vermont in the early 1900's. Lots of lard, butter, fresh cream (from the cows), bacon, and meat. Jennifer and Clarissa would have loved Belle's breakfasts....homemade pie, bacon,blood sausage, fried eggs, toast laden with lots of fresh butter, homemade molasses cookies, salt pork and gravy. Watch these two ladies cook up sumptious meals in castles with huge kitchens full of copper pans hanging from the ceilings and stoves they don't make anymore, to cooking in a hole in the ground; and feel your mouth water when they serve up the meals to Benedictine nuns in Ireland to a hunting party in Scotland or an embassy in London. You will be mesmerized by their unending jocularity and humorous intelligence on world affairs. This is not your typical cooking show-they outshine them all.