This H2H episode should delight anyone who loves cooking and/or eating. Especially near the climas, when they're all racing to cook a lot of recipes to see what they come up with other than food.
All the food looks delicious. And while I love cooking I could never produce anything like the dishes prepared by the amateur Harts. The whole episode is ridiculous but it's good enough to eat.
The 1970s was a time for politics in art. Numerous television shows and radio shows (mostly in England; the radio shows can be heard on BBC 4-extra and the TV shows include incongruities like David McCallum's "Colditz") mention how we're barreling into a new Ice Age, the "settled science" of the time and what I was fearmongered in grade school.
This episode mentions the scarcity of oil, the party line at the time. Or, I should say, the party lie. Along with the myth that all oil comes from decayed old dinosaurs. The myths were aided in the 1970s by the fact that domestic production was suppressed by politicians in the pockets of the environmental lobby, helped by spreading their fears to school kids who were taught we'd all be dead by 1980. Really. Environmentalists are like Millenialists in making stupid predictions that never come true. Now we know from scientific exploration we're sitting on seas of oil if we only get it out. But it's all cris-crossed these days with the new fear-mongering over global warming and oil. And empty-headed actors, talented as they are, who do nothing all day but parrot lines written by others, are happy to be complicit in all this, whether it's global cooling, global warming, oil is sparce or frakking causes earthquakes. Not that I care for myself, though I always find politicizing the weather disgusting, but old fearmongering dates a show as much as typewriters, record players and land lines. Not only that, young viewers tuning in for the first time have no idea what these exploded references mean.
Apart from that, this is a thoroughly enjoyable, innocuous episode with a very amusing tag at the end (no spoilers).
All the food looks delicious. And while I love cooking I could never produce anything like the dishes prepared by the amateur Harts. The whole episode is ridiculous but it's good enough to eat.
The 1970s was a time for politics in art. Numerous television shows and radio shows (mostly in England; the radio shows can be heard on BBC 4-extra and the TV shows include incongruities like David McCallum's "Colditz") mention how we're barreling into a new Ice Age, the "settled science" of the time and what I was fearmongered in grade school.
This episode mentions the scarcity of oil, the party line at the time. Or, I should say, the party lie. Along with the myth that all oil comes from decayed old dinosaurs. The myths were aided in the 1970s by the fact that domestic production was suppressed by politicians in the pockets of the environmental lobby, helped by spreading their fears to school kids who were taught we'd all be dead by 1980. Really. Environmentalists are like Millenialists in making stupid predictions that never come true. Now we know from scientific exploration we're sitting on seas of oil if we only get it out. But it's all cris-crossed these days with the new fear-mongering over global warming and oil. And empty-headed actors, talented as they are, who do nothing all day but parrot lines written by others, are happy to be complicit in all this, whether it's global cooling, global warming, oil is sparce or frakking causes earthquakes. Not that I care for myself, though I always find politicizing the weather disgusting, but old fearmongering dates a show as much as typewriters, record players and land lines. Not only that, young viewers tuning in for the first time have no idea what these exploded references mean.
Apart from that, this is a thoroughly enjoyable, innocuous episode with a very amusing tag at the end (no spoilers).
