Back in Time for Dinner - Season 1 - Eps 3: 1970s
The family and their home strut into the 70s, and culinary innovations come thick and fast. In this episode, the family and their home strut into the 70s. Mary Berry is on hand to help the family stock up their brand new chest freezer, and mum is liberated from the kitchen and gets a job for the first time, discovering how frozen and convenience food became a lifesaver for time-pressed working women. Giles meets the two hippies whose 70s adventures in health food spawned our national addiction to houmous, and the family go all Good Life and discover that milking a goat is nowhere near as simple as it looks. But the 70s wasn't all hippy food. Rapid developments in food technology see the culinary innovations come thick and fast, from powdered orange juice to Pot Noodle and boil-in-the-bag cod, while the birth of artificial-flavour technology sees the children's favourite crisps arrive just in time for their silver jubilee street party.
About Back in Time for Dinner
Title: Back in Time for Dinner
First Air Date: 2015-03-17
Last Air Date: 2015-04-21
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.5/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 6
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Reality
Production Companies: Wall to Wall
Synopsis
One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. Starting in 1950 and guided by real records of what ordinary families ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, they will go from meagre rations to ready meals and delivery pizza in just six weeks.
Cast
Polly Russell
Food Expert
Giles Coren
Presenter
