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The Supersizers...

DocumentaryComedy
2008
2 Seasons
12 Episodes
EN
Ended

About

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.

#food#dinner#historical#food history

Cast

Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins

as Self - Presenter

Giles Coren

Giles Coren

as Self - Presenter

Episodes

The Supersizers Go...

Wartime
E1

Wartime

May 20, 20081h 0m

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins grab their ration books for one week and chomp their way through the food of 1940s WWII Britain. During blackouts and air raids they eat spam and dried egg, have some GI's round for tea and see what Churchill was eating in his Cabinet War Rooms.

Restoration
E2

Restoration

May 27, 20081h 0m

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins try the food of Restoration Britain in the 1660's. They snack on coxcombs, eel pie and copious amounts of small beer.

Victorian
E3

Victorian

Jun 3, 20081h 0m

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and Writer and performer Sue Perkins spend the week on the diet of a wealthy Victorian couple. Cooking for them at home is best selling cookery writer Sophie Grigson. As Giles dons top hat and waxed moustache, Sue dresses up in tight corset and outrageously wide skirts.

Seventies
E4

Seventies

Jun 10, 20081h 0m

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week going back to the food of their childhood in the 1970s. Cooking for them at home is top chef Mark Hix. Giles grows his sideburns, and Sue dons a wig of long hair as they dress in their flares and bright colours to go down memory lane.

Elizabethan
E5

Elizabethan

Jun 17, 20081h 0m

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week going back to the food of Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. Cooking for them at home is top chef Paul Merrett. Giles puts on his codpiece and Sue makes up like Queen Bess.

Regency
E6

Regency

Jun 24, 20081h 0m

Restaurant Critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week on a diet spanning the Regency Years of 1789 - 1821. With the wonderful Rosemary Shrager cooking for them at their country manor house, they enjoy the full trappings of the landed gentry. Dressing as a Jane Austen heroine, Sue is on a mission to find a husband, while Giles indulges in being a dandy.

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