Back in Time for Dinner - Season 1 Episode 4

The 1970s will be a first, at least for Aaron and Tristan, as a decade which they originally did live through, and can remember. Cool is a word they all use to describe the style at least of their house. With much uncertainty in the world, the home became a person's sanctuary, and there was the want for comfort, even in food with the rise of the slow cooker. With women starting to go to work, men started to assist in domestic duties, although under the guidance of the wife. The working wife also led to the rise of latch-key kids, who were often left with convenience foods – such as instant mac and cheese – as an easy to make after school snack. One of the most well-remembered events of the early 1970s was the 1972 Canada-Russia summit series, which turned out not only to be a measure of hockey supremacy, but a geopolitical gauge of the supremacy of democracy versus communism. The federal policy of multiculturalism led in part to great immigration, resulting in a more ethnically diverse array of restaurant choices, especially Indian (i.e. South Asian) restaurants. Such a meal hits home with part South Asian Tristan, who grew up with such food. Later in the decade, the health movement took hold, health and supposed health foods which became more popular. What made life more complicated, in addition in the kitchen, was the onset of the metric system. The latest 1970s was known specifically by one fad: disco. Disco soon was paired with roller skating to form roller disco. The Campuses end the decade with an extended family dinner with new latest food trend: the fondue. With computers and cell phones still decades away, the Campus kids are stuck with the fads of the day to keep themselves preoccupied during their free time, from macrame, to riding banana seat bicycles, to space balls, to being mesmerized by mood rings. And by the end of the decade, Tristan is arguably the happiest she has been during the whole experiment up to this point.