Garlic & Pearls

By: Muriel Zagha and Suzanne Raine
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  • Suzanne and Muriel examine a series of very different things – from a film to a kitchen utensil, a model train to a bar of soap – that define British or French attitudes, each explaining her cultural background to the other and trying to get to the essence of what makes the British British and the French French.

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    Muriel Zagha and Suzanne Raine
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Episodes
  • The Concierge

    The Concierge
    Jan 10 2025
    In which Muriel tells Suzanne the story of French concierges – the guardians of French buildings – involving systematic and distinctive urban planning begun in the 1830s, the proliferation of concierge imagery and mythology throughout literature, satirical cartons and vaudeville, and the real-life hardships faced by concierges in the past and in contemporary France.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Marmalade

    Marmalade
    Jan 3 2025
    James Bond spread it on his breakfast toast; Paddington and Queen Elizabeth II kept marmalade sandwiches ‘for emergencies’; Scott of the Antarctic took some to the South Pole. Suzanne peels away layers of the history of marmalade as it evolved from dark quince paste to translucent bitter orange jelly and grew into a ubiquitous British export throughout the world, with Dundee as its capital city. And Muriel reveals her own surprising marmalade journey of enlightenment.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Galette Des Rois

    Galette Des Rois
    Dec 27 2024
    Where does the almond-filled ‘galette des rois’ come from? And why have the French clung so tenaciously to it through the centuries? Muriel unveils a seasonal French cake with ancient roots reaching back to Antiquity and many connections to royalty and power. And – not a moment too soon – Suzanne becomes Queen.

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    1 hr and 4 mins

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