(Further) Back in Time for Dinner: (link one paragraph to the other)

Episode 2: 1910

• Gas cooker - most con of the 1910s - it transformed cooking
• The introduction of recognised brands (Colman's Mustard, Sunlight Soap, Heinz Soup)
• Consume a lot of canned goods - technological advance in canning 
• More able to import foods from around the world - 60% of Britain's food was from abroad in this era - cheap imports favoured over home grown products - British agriculture suffered as a result of free trade
• So dependent on cheap imports - WW1 hits 
• Start of the decade 600 million pounds in the economy is spent on food - end of the decade its just over 1000 - the food becomes more expensive 
• Panic buying before the war was common - used dustbins to carry it all - prices soared because of people clearing the shelves

Episode 3: 1920

• Emergence of the modern housewife 
• Huge number of tinned foods - variety are produced in Britain and abroad - considered a modern way of cooking 
• A nation focused on the future - didn't want to re-call the horrors of WW1
• Rapidly advancing technology, loosening of social attitudes and a thirst for all things new
• More variety in food - canned food, ice cream, prepared and manufactured food
• No longer have servants so woman is more likely to rely on manufactured goods
• 1924 - Kellogg's breakfast cereal launches in UK from USA

Episode 4: 1930

• More technology - 1/3 of homes are electric on National Grid
• Kettle, toaster 
• Factories of manufactured goods are booming - lots and lots of brands
• Cost of food is less than it was - due to depression

Episode 5: 1940

• Consumer appliances 'added extras' are no longer being produced
• Labour is focused on trying to win a war - not making toasters
• The kitchen is instrumental in us winning the war
• Rationing is at the centre 
• Bread was not rationed in the war but was after http://howitreallywas.typepad.com/how_it_really_was/bread_rationing/ - “one of the gravest announcements that I have ever heard made in the House [of Commons] in the time of peace” and the Daily Mail reported on 3rd July 1946, that it was “the most hated measure ever to have been presented to the people of this country." 

• Ministry of Food controlled all the food that people ate in this era 

• Rationing allowed poor or rich families equal share of limited supplies 

• The governments control on the food directly impacted every citizen

Further Back in Time for Dinner. (2017). [video] BBC: Wall to Wall Media.

• The kitchen now is a place of convince and ease
• Our interest in food gadgets and fads is nothing new
• Food was seen as a status symbol in the early 20th Century - an average person in the Edwardian era ate 3,000+ calories a day
• Suffragettes popularised the vegetarian diet
• The 20s signalled an interest in foreign more exotic foods
• 30s was all about eating healthily - salads at the top of the menu - experimental time in food that has translated into cooking today - interest in keeping fit - 'Hollywood diet' emulate the stars of Hollywood - even then there was pressure - link to social media section
• Atkins, raw food diets now - were fascinated with ways of eating ourselves healthier - eat dirt, gluten attack - gut makeover - it is perceived in this programme to be a under the label of fads
• Everybody now has an opinion of nutrition - tweet, blog etc.
• Paleo diet: based on our ancestors 2 1/2 million years ago - hunting, fishing, gathering - no processed food, no sugar
• 'Everyone's looking for the next new diet, the next new fad'
• 'Food isn't just to make you live. It's to help you live a certain way'