Restaurants - A Taste of Class

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Class, labour, exchange, symbolism, performance - the restaurant is a stage which serves many functions. Laurie Taylor explores a cultural history of restaurants with author of 'The Restaurant: Society in Four Courses' Christoph Ribbat and Times food critic Giles Coren. Also on the programme - an ethnography of a farmer's market with Dr Jessica Paddock, lecturer in Sociology at Bristol University. Producer Fiona Woods.