TV Dinners

Episode 9 (3x9)

: 04, 1998

Hugh joins Michael Dudgeon and his mother Mary as Michael prepares a celebratory dinner, using ingredients to be found on his 4,000 acre estate in the Highlands. The West Essex Gourmet Club offer Hugh a taste of the 70s and 80s as the men don the aprons and look to their favourite decades to provide some dinner party delights. Michael Dugeon runs a 4,000 acre family estate in Sutherland, just 30 miles south of John O'Groats in the Highlands of Scotland. He not only hunts and butchers his own deer, fishes from trout in his own pool and grows his own vegetables, he's also an accomplished cook. Michael proudly prepares a formal dinner for a select group of his mother's oldest friends. Meanwhile the West Essex Gourmet Club is preparing to cook up some nostalgic delights from their book of menus, which translates like a history book of the suburban dinner party. In 1963, Ron and Pam Heath and four friends formed the Gourmet Club and have held regular dinner parties at each others houses ever since, with the men unusually stepping into the kitchen. This meal will be the Gourmets' 35th anniversary and Ron plans to cook some of the dishes they have enjoyed over the decades.