Time Shift s09ep01 Farm to Pharma The Rise and Rise of Food Science

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Time Shift s09ep01 Farm to Pharma The Rise and Rise of Food Science.WnA
Thu 30 Apr 2009 21:00 BBC Four

Documentary which explores the history of British food science, taking a fascinating voyage
through over a century of petri-dishes, vitamins and E-numbers.

The connection between food manufacturers and the white coat brigade is nothing new. One
hundred and fifty years before Heston Blumenthal, Birmingham chemist Alfred Bird was
reinventing custard because his wife had an allergy to eggs.

By the 1930s, George Orwell was already complaining about the chemical by-products that the
British people were eating, but when war gave scientists a chance to remake the British diet
the improvement in the nation's health was extraordinary.

Charting the growing role that food science has played in our daily lives, we meet Tony
Blake, the food scientist who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and we learn about
biochemist Jack Drummond, the tragic mastermind of British food in the Second World War, who
died alongside his family as in a mysterious murder.

We discover how vegetarian product Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis and
how breakthroughs in flavour chemistry helped create the day-glo processed foods of the
1970s. We recall Margaret Thatcher's early career as a food scientist and find out why there
was no such thing as a free lunch when it came to the promise of fat-free snacks.

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