The Supersizers...
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.
Documentary, Comedy • Series • 2008 • 2 seasons
Starring: Sue Perkins, Giles Coren
S1 E1 - 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 • 1h
S1 E2 - 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 • 1h
S1 E3 - 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.
Jun 3, 2008 • 1h
S1 E4 - 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.
Jun 10, 2008 • 1h
S1 E5 - 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.
Jun 17, 2008 • 1h
S1 E6 - 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.
Jun 24, 2008 • 1h
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About This Show
The Supersizers...
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.
Documentary, Comedy • TV Series • 2008
Details
- Genre
- Documentary, Comedy
- First aired
- May 20, 2008
- Last aired
- Jul 27, 2009
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 12
- Network
- BBC Two
- Studio
- Silver River Productions
- Language
- English