Season 1

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  7.7/1020 votes

  Wartime

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/20/2008

  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.

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  7.9/1013 votes

  Restoration

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/27/2008

  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.

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  7.9/1029 votes

  Victorian

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/3/2008

  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.

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  8.4/1017 votes

  Seventies

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/10/2008

  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.

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  8.2/1011 votes

  Elizabethan

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/17/2008

  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.

  Director: Kate Scholefield

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  8.6/1015 votes

  Regency

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/24/2008

  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.

  Director: Neil Ferguson

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