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Giles and Sue Live The Good Life [Hardcover]

Giles Coren (Author)
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Publication Date: 28 Oct 2010

For the 35th anniversary of iconic sitcom The Good Life, and in homage to Tom and Barbara Good, Giles Coren and Sue Perkins are trying out self-sufficiency in the suburbs. But is it really possible to live out of the rat race and off grid in modern Britain?

Through Giles and Sue's experiments in dying and making clothes, rearing chickens, goats and pigs, growing veg in the garden, selling their produce to the public and making their own electricity, this book shows you how to be greener, reduce your carbon footprint and, in the spirit of Tom and Barbara Good, how to live more self-sufficiently too.

Packed with practical information, and helpful hints and tips, Giles and Sue Live The Good Life is an inspirational new handbook for sustainable living.

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Popular duo Giles and Sue step into the roles of seventies sit-com self-sufficiency icons Tom and Barbara Good, to discover whether living off grid is possible in the real world.

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Sue Perkin and Giles Coren are a familiar TV team, first appearing together in Edwardian Supersize Me in 2007 followed by The Supersizers Go... in 2008, where they ate the diets from various historical periods, including WWII rations, then monitored the impact each diet had on their bodies. They returned in 2009 with The Supersizers Eat... sampling the foods of ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the French revolution and Twenties.

When not eating weird and wonderful historical delicacies with Giles, Sue is a comedian, radio and television presenter, actress, and writer. She has appeared on a range of popular TV panel and entertainment shows, winning BBC talent show Maestro in 2008, culminating in her conducting of three pieces at Proms in the Park. Giles is a restaurant critic, newspaper columnist for The Times and Sunday Times and author. He has also presented a number of programmes, including 2006 documentary Taxing the Fat about the costs of obesity for the NHS. He became a familiar TV face after he regularly appeared as a correspondent on Gordan Ramsey's The F-Word in 2005.

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3.0 out of 5 stars kind of disappointing 24 April 2012
By Alice L. Ramirez - Published on Amazon.com
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I became a fan of Giles and Sue when I saw them in "Supersizers Go," a wonderfully gross yet informative series in which each episode explores foods of a different era. Giles and Sue, in appropriate costuming and setting, sample the often weird and even gross edibles popular in that particular time (ancient rome, middle ages, WWII era, 'fifties, etc.) Their comments were often hilarious and they have good chemistry. It's a fun series. When I saw this book I thought I'd really enjoy it because I so liked the series.

"Giles and Sue Live the Good Life" has the duo exploring self-sufficiency in the suburbs (based on some '70s-vintage British sitcom). Okay, the reader gets kind of an overview of how to make cheese from one's goats, homemade pea-pod wine, etc., but I don't think I'd try to do any of this based on the book. I'd need further instruction.

The book is geared toward UK readers, where would-be urban farmers have to put up with some obnoxiously repressive laws that micro-manage what you may and may not feed your chickens, etc. (I would be a total scofflaw if I had to live under such laws. After all, if they are MY hens and I'm eating their eggs and eventually flesh, whose business is it if I feed them table scraps?!) I am too much of a libertarian not go get annoyed. Giles and Sue on TV have much charm, but seem bland in print. Frankly, the book is a bit boring. However, if they ever do a TV series based on their experiments, I would certainly watch it.
3.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Was Looking for 6 Dec 2012
By Dr. Barton - Published on Amazon.com
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I was hoping for a book on simulating the self-sufficiency in the series and how is differed from the series. A little of the humor of the original writers would have been a bonus. Instead, it was rather lifeless. Honestly, a couple of months after reading it, I don't remember much more about it than that it wasn't good and it wasn't bad.
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