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victoriavandal.livejournal.com'The Supersizers Eat...The French Revolution' is scheduled to be shown on 6th July 9pm BBC2 (though the tennis has just overrun, taking tonight's episode out of the schedule, so it might be bumped along to the week after). Here's the blurb from the BBC website:
"Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.
Giles and Sue go for a journey back to Revolutionary France in the 1780s. Donning wigs and corsets, Giles and Sue find out what King Louis 16th ate, why Marie Antoinette was so hated, and how the Revolution was instrumental in creating the first restaurant and first restaurant critic.
French chef Mickael Weiss from London's Coq d'Argent sweats it out in the kitchens providing the lavish banquets in some of the most beautiful chateaus in France.
During the week, they sample frog's legs, a masked meal, an iced sculpture of the Bastille complete with fireworks and Marie Antoinette's soup before she was taken to the guillotine. Sue tries cake at Versailles while Giles has a banquet consisting entirely of a new vegetable called the potato.
Following in the footsteps of the king and queen, Giles and Sue escape from Paris in a horse-drawn carriage and end the week with a meal consisting entirely of black food and with a live pig as the guest of honour. The French Revolution in a week is truly a supersized undertaking."
The first series in this format was pretty good, so I have been holding out hopes for this, but so far the first couple of episodes of the new series (they've done 'the 80's' and 'Medieval') have been tedious and self indulgent: someone in the cutting room evidently decided the presenters are more interesting than the food - they aren't. It also sounds very toff-food-heavy, though almost all the episodes so far have concentrated on the food of the rich, banquets being more photogenic than bread and dripping (I'd like to see them eat the food of the medieval poor for a week!). Anyway, it's on in Britain (and presumably British-reception areas around the Channel region) and online for either a week or 28 days - not sure which - but someone has posted some of the earlier episodes on youtube, so it may turn up there, too (I don't have downloading/uploading abilities!).
Btw earlier episodes were called 'The Supersizers Go', so if you are searching Youtube, you may find it under that.
"Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.
Giles and Sue go for a journey back to Revolutionary France in the 1780s. Donning wigs and corsets, Giles and Sue find out what King Louis 16th ate, why Marie Antoinette was so hated, and how the Revolution was instrumental in creating the first restaurant and first restaurant critic.
French chef Mickael Weiss from London's Coq d'Argent sweats it out in the kitchens providing the lavish banquets in some of the most beautiful chateaus in France.
During the week, they sample frog's legs, a masked meal, an iced sculpture of the Bastille complete with fireworks and Marie Antoinette's soup before she was taken to the guillotine. Sue tries cake at Versailles while Giles has a banquet consisting entirely of a new vegetable called the potato.
Following in the footsteps of the king and queen, Giles and Sue escape from Paris in a horse-drawn carriage and end the week with a meal consisting entirely of black food and with a live pig as the guest of honour. The French Revolution in a week is truly a supersized undertaking."
The first series in this format was pretty good, so I have been holding out hopes for this, but so far the first couple of episodes of the new series (they've done 'the 80's' and 'Medieval') have been tedious and self indulgent: someone in the cutting room evidently decided the presenters are more interesting than the food - they aren't. It also sounds very toff-food-heavy, though almost all the episodes so far have concentrated on the food of the rich, banquets being more photogenic than bread and dripping (I'd like to see them eat the food of the medieval poor for a week!). Anyway, it's on in Britain (and presumably British-reception areas around the Channel region) and online for either a week or 28 days - not sure which - but someone has posted some of the earlier episodes on youtube, so it may turn up there, too (I don't have downloading/uploading abilities!).
Btw earlier episodes were called 'The Supersizers Go', so if you are searching Youtube, you may find it under that.
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