Synopsis
Giles Coren and Sue Perkins experience the food of the Elizabethan era to see just how healthy the diet was.
- Programme: The Supersizers
- Episode: Elizabethan
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2008
- History
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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