Yes, I thought that as well. As you say, it's typical (of many in the academic community) to think that way. Academic communities (such as in Egyptology for example) might stretch over a couple of generations and there maybe few within such communities prepared to upset the established applecart - even when a different interpretation of the accepted history is staring them in the face.

Perhaps it's a bit grating for us (but then we're a pretty weird group by 'normal' standards ;-) The series (if it's not condescending to say so) is perhaps addressing the people who haven't thought about food outside the pre-packaged stuff they get at the supermarket. There was an interview with Ray Mears on the radio earlier this week and I was struck by several things he said - one thing in particular was about the, Get me out of here... progs on TV that show Westerners eating grubs etc, and how we see those things as somehow disgusting. Ray asked, "How would we feel if an Aboriginal walked into our kitchen on Christmas Day and asked, "What are those disgusting, ridiculous things you call Yorkshire Puddings?"

Maybe you don't have to go that far :-) I eat seaweed on an almost daily basis; most of it can be found right here on our own coasts - it's delicious but, as with mushrooms and other wild foods, we've lost the knowledge to find and prepare it - maybe Ray Mears' prog will help to address a little of that imbalance :-)