Moving Image Formats about Food- Blog 5

Hey all, I have reviewed a TV series this time. My interest in history has influenced me to research this TV series. Hope it is of appeal and fascination.

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The Supersizers Go /The Supersizers Eat

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About the TV Series-

Roman all the way through history to the world war and to modern day, these two series go through each period to have a taste literally of the food that has changed so much. 

Starting with a pilot episode called Edwardian Supersize Me, journalist and restaurant critic Giles Coren, and broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins peared up to present and experience the different type of diets throughout the eras.

 The first season (May/June 2008) ‘Supersizers Go’ involved Wartime, Restoration, Victorian, The Seventies, Elizabethan era, and the Regency age. The second season in June/July 2009 however, saw them experiencing The Eighties, The Medieval Period, The French Revolution, The Fifties, and Ancient Rome in ‘Supersizers Eat’. 

The Experience-
 
Dressing the part, and eating their way through the centuries, they explore and reflect the effects of such diets, and see the effects on the body through heath checks before and after each experimental week. Despite not cooking the food themselves, instead having specialist chefs and cooks coming in, it is interesting to see the development in the foods and reasons why we ate and drank what we did in specific periods.  

  
I will be reviewing each episode in separate blogs possibly as I feel that reviewing both whole series which has 5 plus episodes in would make this blog rather long. 

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Another TV show that this duo did together is ‘Giles and Sue Live the Good Life’ back at the end of 2010. This will be reviewed at a later date also. 

So if you love food and history, check this out!

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