Back in Time for Dinner - Season 1 (2018)

Guided by Annabel Crabb, an Aussie family goes on a time-travelling adventure to discover how the food we eat has transformed the way we live, the fabric of the nation and defined family roles over the past 60 years. The food-loving Ferrone family is throwing away their culinary comforts and kitchen appliances, smartphones and snapchat, and turning their back on a 21st Century lifestyle. The Ferrones are embarking on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure from 1950 to the future, to discover how the way we shopped, cooked, and ate has shaped our modern-day lives. In each episode the family and their home are transported to a different decade, as they take on the dietary habits, lifestyle, cooking fads and fashion of that era. Back in Time for Dinner offers a unique opportunity to tap into the social, economic, and political imperatives of our times. The family's own home is meticulously transformed back in time from the 50s all the way to present day and finally into the future. Following carefully researched recipes they'll source, cook, and eat the same meals as everyday Australian families in each era. The family will live through the highs, lows and challenges that shaped family life in the 20th century. With the visually compelling transformation of the house, the soundtrack of the decades, and extraordinary ABC archival material, Back in Time for Dinner is rich with the pleasure of recollection and nostalgia as well as the jaw dropping disbelief at how quite alien the world was not so long ago!