Nigel Slater: Life Is Sweets
Food writer Nigel Slater charts the origins of British sweets and chocolates from medicinal, medieval boiled sweets to the chocolate bars that line the supermarket shelves today.
Chocolate limes, buttered brazils, sherbert dib-dabs and marshmallows. Food writer Nigel Slater charts the origins of British sweets and chocolates from medicinal, medieval boiled sweets to the chocolate bars that line the supermarket shelves today.
With adverts of the sweets everyone remembers and loves, this nostalgic, emotional and heartwarming journey transports Nigel back to his childhood by the powerful resonance of the sweets he used to buy with his pocket money. Nigel recalls the curiously small toffee that inspired him to write his memoir, the marshmallow, which he associates with his mother, and the travel sweet, which conjures up memories of his father. He marvels at the power of something as incidental as a sweet to reveal emotions, character and the past.
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Visiting the oldest sweet shop in Britain
Duration: 01:26
Food Glorious Food Season
Nigel Slater: Life is Sweets is part of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four Food Glorious Food Season, a collection of intriguing new programmes exploring Britain’s curious foodie history. Find out more about the other programmes in the season below…
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The French chef Michel Roux introduces the legacy of the first celebrity chef to make his mark on Britain - Georges Auguste Escoffier.
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Dr Lucy Worsley retraces the life and work of the now largely forgotten writer, Dorothy Hartley and the origins of her seminal book 'Food in England'.
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ΜύThe story of how a small group of enterprising Australian winemakers took on the world and won.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Nigel Slater |
| Executive Producer | Emma Hindley |
| Director | Mark Adderley |
| Writer | Nigel Slater |
Broadcasts
- Mon 5 Nov 2012 21:00
- Tue 6 Nov 2012 02:40
Wed 7 Nov 2012 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD- Sat 10 Nov 2012 22:40
- Christmas Eve 2012 21:00
- Mon 15 Apr 2013 01:30
- Wed 9 Oct 2013 22:00
- Thu 15 Oct 2015 23:00
- Thu 30 Jun 2016 23:00
- Tue 5 Jul 2016 00:45
- Sun 11 Jun 2017 19:00
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