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Television was broadcast live in the 1940s, and Harben had some minor disasters in front of the camera. On one occasion he cracked an egg that was so bad that he had to abandon the demonstration amid his own and the studio crew's helpless laughter, and on another he reached the last moments of the
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which ran until March 1948. Like the earlier radio programmes it focused on basic techniques and making the best use of scarce ingredients (food rationing became even more stringent in the early post-war years than it had been at the height of the war). Levy describes Harben as the first
British
137:(ITMA). As a child Harben spent considerable time in the kitchen with the family's cook while his parents were away on tour. He later recalled, "I could scramble eggs and make mayonnaise long before I could read
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in which two of the characters, Lady
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describes Harben as "a member of the avant-garde intellectual left", and together with
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