Product Details

• Actors: Jennifer Paterson, Clarissa Dickson-Wright
• Directors: Patricia Llewellyn
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 5
• Studio: New River Media
• VHS Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305385920
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,841 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars better than the series, April 13, 2000

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snappiness (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Fat Ladies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The videos include edited-out sections in which the ladies visit various local food purveyors. These bits are charming and informative, and for me they greatly improved the series. From the television I assumed the ladies were just dilitantes, hardly in the same leagues as Julia or perhaps Jacques. But these restored sections show them to be quite serious and knowledgeable about sourcing produce, fish and local delicacies.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unconventional, funny and sadly missed!, December 30, 2000

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"lemuel_tay" (Bardon, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Fat Ladies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you've never seen this series and love cooking, you owe it to yourself to get these tapes.

They were very unconventional, truly funny and had great receipts (Jennifer's insistence on the spelling of recipies). The amounts of butter, lard and cream used in the show are quite enough to give one a coronary, but then again, their motto has always been to live life to the full. Alas, Jennifer is no more (she died of lung cancer), so this series is a real gem.

I live in Australia and this series was a very big hit over here, where they were feted as celebrities. In these days of political correctness and constant dieting, these two large ladies bring a much needed different viewpoint to cooking.

Last but not least, don't ever let the title "Two Fat Ladies" ever put you off. They never hid the fact that they were built solidly. In their own words, they said that they had absolutely no problem with fat, but were a little miffed that the word "ladies" made them sound like a public convenience!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful ladies, March 30, 2002

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D. Wright (FLORIDA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Fat Ladies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

These ladies are rare. They are excellent cooks that cook right from the land. No short cuts here. Their sense of humor is delightfull. I would have been honored to have met Jennifer Paterson. Her death was excedingly premature. The world is not for the better without her. The Fat Ladies are bright, well educated, humorous and can never be replaced. They brought alot of joy to my life by watching their shows. I learned alot about cooking and laughed till I hurt. Why they are off the TV I will never understand, and why more VHS and DVD are not avaliable......
They are the best.