That is, until Dan Pearson, an American sourdough baker, came along and showed pizza lovers how good it really can be.

As the capital, Paris is understandably swarming with pizza joints, some enjoyable and well done, but most of them forgettable. By some estimates, the French as a whole are the world’s second biggest consumers of pizza after the United States. Of all the incredible foods in Paris, which do you think gets consumed the most? If your instincts led you to say pizza you’d be correct. The BBC series Marie Antoinette reviewed by The Guardian Susan Taylor Leduc and Picturesque VoyagesĮpisode 83, a previous conversation with Susan Taylor Leduc Susan Taylor Leduc, an art historian, previous guest, fellow guide who runs Picturesque Voyages, joins me today to talk about the world’s obsession with Marie Antoinette, her role within the royal court, what pop culture has gotten wrong about her, and the parallels with depictions of Parisian women today. But what if that is an incomplete story? What if new scholarship points to a more nuanced picture of Marie Antoinette and the empresses that followed in her footsteps? That’s part of what today’s guest uncovered in her new book ' Marie Antoinette’s Legacy: The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design'. The long maligned figure of French royalty and one of many unfortunate symbols of the French Revolution, the former queen has rarely been painted in a positive light. If I think about some of the women that have defined Parisian and French history, I instantly think of Marie Antoinette.

Paris Society spots (Monsieur Bleu, Girafe.) What might explain the proliferation of more global less local styles in restaurants and hotels in Paris? Who have been some of the tastemakers over the years and what defines the kind of look and feel we’re seeing now? To get to the bottom of it, I chat with Tala Gahragozlou, an interior architect who trained with and worked for Frank Gehry, has worked for Soho House, India Mahdavi, The Hoxton, and with her design collective Atelier Ramo, designed Bleu Bao and Bao Express, two restaurants from the group Bao Family. In some ways, it feels more like London with its developed restaurant groups and their sharp designs. In the last 8 or so years, it feels like every new spot has a resident interior designer or architect or a theme that they’re going for. There are the iconic interiors one might imagine when thinking of Paris but then there are the more sceney or concepty places that seem to have big design firms and big investors behind them. Much like fashion, Paris is a global reference for design.

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