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Before Emeril Lagasse, Gordon Ramsay, Martha Stewart, and Nigella Lawson made their names as television food stars, there was Betty Crocker. The history of cooking and food shows began in 1924 began with the composite character created by consumer food producer General Mills. “The Betty Crocker Cooking School of the Air,” a radio show, first aired on WCCO, in Minneapolis, later expanding to ABC, CBS, and NBC until its nearly 30-year run ended in 1951. The first standalone television cooking […]