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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.
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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Wed 1 Oct 200800:20
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Regulation of the wartime kitchen
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The role of British Restaurants during WW2
Duration: 02:06
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What did Churchill eat during the war?
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Sourcing ingredients for a WW2 Sunday lunch
Duration: 02:07



