'Frasier' moves into the kitchen
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Your support makes all the difference.Fans of the US TV comedy show Frasier are looking forward to Friday when their favourite character returns to Channel 4, but now comes news of a far more important date for them to mark in their diaries.
On 5 September Frasier, and his screen brother, Niles, will publish their own cook book in the UK.
Their culinary artistry is the latest addition to the booming trend for cookery books based on US comedy and sci-fi shows. Last Christmas one of the best-sellers in the US and UK was Cooking With Friends, which invited readers "to bring Friends from your living room into your kitchen" - a novel suggestion as most viewers had only ever considered inviting stars such as Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc into their bedrooms. Friends sold 26,000 copies (remarkable for an imported cookery book) last Christmas in the UK and 250,000 in the States.
There has also been the Cheers cocktail guide and several Star Trek tomes of recipes, all of which have been huge hits.
Adrian Sington, managing director of Boxtree, publishers of the Frasier book, says their popularity is due to the ever-decreasing age of cookery- book buyers. "The age has dropped incredibly and the people buying these comedy and sci-fi cook books are 16 to 20 years old; especially 20-year- olds because so many of them have their own flat or are away at college by that age." The book will sell for pounds 6.99.
Frasier's Cafe Nervosa: The Connoisseur's Cookbook takes its name from the pit stop where the characters go to get the ultimate Seattle coffee and food that meets their demanding palates. There are sections called "Man Can Live By Bread Alone" and "Let's Do Lunch", and recipes for Daphne's moon-style muffins, bodacious buttermilk pancakes and cardamom coffee.
Plans were revealed last week for a cookery book based on the sci-fi series Babylon 5 which is set on a space station in the 23rd century. Food economists are being employed to create recipes for the futuristic dishes seen in the station's restaurant, Fresh Air.
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