A historian hunts a food writer who made English cooking radical before it was cool.
As part of the Food, Glorious Food season, historian Lucy Worsley journeys across England and Wales in search of Dorothy Hartley, the long-forgotten writer of what is today considered to be one of the masterpieces of food writing, Food in England, published in 1954.
Direction
Worsley charm carries every frame.
Production
Gorgeous English countryside shots.
Director
David Parker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hartley's book contains 700+ recipes but reads like social history—she interviewed elderly farmworkers to preserve dying techniques. FREE
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