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Hudson & Halls

The food of love

Author: Joanne Drayton  

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Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s towards homosexuality. In this riveting book, New York Times bestselling author Joanne Drayton celebrates the legacy of the unforgettable Hudson and Halls.

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Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s towards homosexuality. In this riveting book, New York Times bestselling author Joanne Drayton celebrates the legacy of the unforgettable Hudson and Halls.

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Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctant role models for a `don't ask, don't tell' generation of gay men and women who lived by omission. They were also captains of a culinary revolution that saw the overthrow of Aunty Daisy and Betty Crocker and the beginnings of Pacific-rich, Asian-styled international cuisine. Their drinking, bitching and bickering on screen, their spontaneous unchoreographed movements across the stage that left cameras and startled production staff exposed broke taboos and melted formalities. They captivated an unlikely bunch of viewers, from middle-aged matrons to bush-shirted blokes. Hudson and Halls were pioneers of celebrity television as we know it today: the naughty, not-quite-normal boys next door who rocketed to stardom on untrained talent and a dream. When Peter Hudson became seriously ill with prostate cancer, David Halls was inconsolable. What remained unchanged through it all was their abiding love for each other. In this riveting, fast-paced and meticulously researched book, New York Times bestselling author Joanne Drayton celebrates the legacy of the unforgettable Hudson and Halls.

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About the Author

Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards 2013, the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary, and a cover story in the New Zealand Listener. Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her life in crime (2008) was a Christmas pick in the UK’s Independent newspaper in 2009. Joanne has written three other groundbreaking biographies. In 2007 she was awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017 she received a prestigious Logan Nonfiction Fellowship at the Carey Institute in Upstate New York. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner and three cats.

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Product Details

Publisher
Otago University Press
Published
30th September 2018
Pages
304
ISBN
9781988531267

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