There's a Tudor Recipe that starts with a tiny bird and ends up with a swan or somesuch, they did it on a prog called 'The Supersizers go ...' which looked at a food in a different historic period every week. Elizabethan, Restoration,Regency, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime.
The two presenters dressed and ate as the upper classes of the periods for a week each.
Write up by one of the presenters