Food, Glorious Food

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Food, Glorious Food

Yorkshire Film Archive
Kingston upon Hull
2006-03-09
Sound

A look at how our attitudes to food and food production have changed over the past 100 years.

Food Glorious Food takes a look at how our attitudes to food and food production have changed over the past 100 years. The programme looks a farming in the fifties in the Yorkshire Wolds, takes us into a fish dock in Hull to look at the work of the men unloading the fish and filleting them, and remembers the early days of the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate. It also looks at the genesis of the Jackson supermarket chain and goes back to 1964 and the baking of the world's largest pie in Denby Dale.

What We Ate

If 'we are what we eat', then we're definitely not who we used to be...

The British diet has come a long way since the days when lard, suet and condensed milk were the staple of every kitchen, and when 'takeaway' invariably meant a fish supper. We still love our fish & chips - and our Sunday roasts, full English breakfasts, sausage & mash and neeps and tatties. But today our supermarkets stock food and ingredients from six continents, and our comfort food may just as likely be curry, sushi, risotto, chilli con carne or peri peri chicken. This selection of cookery shows, news reports, adverts and debates gives a taste of how our appetites and our palates were transformed, as well as highlighting some of the food fads and fears that simmered up along the way. So take a seat, browse the menu, and remember: watch what you eat!

36 videos in this collection

School Dinners Suck

Sale
2004

Genetic Engineering and Farm Animals

1997

Organic Farming At Mangreen Farm

Mangreen Fm
1987-07-01

For a Takeaway

South Shields
1996-08-02

Foot And Mouth

2001

Curry City

Bradford
2000

Butcher Tours Schools in Lincolnshire

Grantham
1985-09-19

Health Foods Introduced to School Dinners

Stowupland
1985-07-09

Tucker's Crisps Use Unpeeled Potatoes

Norwich
1986-05-16

Here and Now

West Bromwich
1986-02-16

Vegetarian Cooking

1991-11-09

The Dales Diary

Kirkby Fleetham
1994-09-12

Bletchley Receives EEC Free Beef

Bletchley
1987-01-28

Council Buys 4m Portions of Frozen Chips

Chelmsford
1987-02-16