Sue Perkins
Presenter
The Supersizers... (2008)
The Supersizers Go...
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.
Released May 20, 2008
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Comedy, Documentary, History
Keywords: tmdb.food, tmdb.dinner, tmdb.historical, tmdb.food-history, imdb.writer
Production Companies: Silver River Productions
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Wartime
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.
May 20, 2008, midnight
S1E2 - Restoration
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.
May 27, 2008, midnight
S1E3 - Victorian
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.
June 3, 2008, midnight
S1E4 - Seventies
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.
June 10, 2008, midnight
S1E5 - Elizabethan
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.
June 17, 2008, midnight
S1E6 - Regency
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.
June 24, 2008, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: May 20, 2008
Last Air Date: July 27, 2009, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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