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In this episode, Monica calls on Emma and some food industry friends in France and Jamaica to help her figure out what tack to take in the eating department this year. While plant-led recipes are obviously the ordre du jour for both planetary and dietary reasons, dreaming them up can sometimes feel daunting. Conveniently, Emma has had not one but two cookbooks published in the last few years, and is on hand with an easy breakfast smoothie recipe that will please grown-ups and kiddies alike. Then, your trusty hosts venture into the field to gather more ingestible intel. Monica, to Cafe Pimpin, a favourite modern all-day cafe and eatery in Paris, and Emma, to Stush in the Bush, atop a breezy hill in Jamaica, to get the scoop from their respective chefs. Pencils at the ready! Easy recipes, culinary inspiration and approachable food philosophies abound.

Cafe Pimpin, Paris 17th & 18th arrondissements 

Instagram: @cafepimpin 

Stush in the Bush, Freehill, Jamaica 

Instagram: @stushinthebush

The Greenhouse Cookbook by Emma Knight, Hana James, Deeva Green & Lee Reitelman

How to Eat With One Hand by Emma Knight and Christine Flynn

Some plant-based dinner recipes:

Cauliflower Crust Pizza via Greenhouse

Mac, Cheese + Kale via Greenhouse

Pumpkin Ravioli via Greenhouse

Coconut Curry on Brown Rice Noodles via Greenhouse

Grilled Asparagus and Kale Salad with Chimichurri via you guessed it!

Vegan Ricotta à la Stush in the Bush

Cashew Ricotta via Minimalist Baker

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Are we living in the Golden Age of television? Or are we just addicted to the binge? In this episode, an Omi-bliterated Monica and a toddler-addled Emma make it their New Year’s resolution to watch more television (manageable goals, people!). We call upon Hannah J Davies, a critic and culture writer for The Guardian, to be our TV guide. Hannah takes us on a tour of the infinite content available on streaming platforms, and brings an inside lens to our burning questions about television today. We discuss the curiously compelling antiheroes of Billions and Succession, the just-in-time cultural catharsis provided by shows like The White Lotus, the record-breaking steam train that is Bridgerton, the Seinfeld Factor™, and the one-too-many-Oreos feeling brought on by the 2000s Revival. Please don your ugliest pyjama pants, the ones that are turning grey and have lost all elasticity, and join us on the couch.

Show Notes:

Golden Age of TV? Spotify Playlist by DJ Monica DLV

Write to us at [email protected]!

Let’s hang out on the Internet (it’s not like we’re going anywhere IRL!):

Monica Ainley DLV @monicaainleyDLV

Emma Knight @emmalknight

Hannah J Davies on Twitter @hannahjdavies

Shows and articles we mention (and where we think you can find them, as of writing):

Billions (SHOWTIME, Prime)

Succession (HBO Max, Prime)

The White Lotus (HBO Max, Netflix)

Bridgerton (Netflix)

Go, Dog. Go! (Netflix)

The Grinch in question (Apple)

The Squid Game (Netflix)

Lupin (Netflix)

Seinfeld (Netflix)

“Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV by Kyle Chayka via The New Yorker

‘Why do I want to write about these awful, rich, evil people?’: the making of Succession by Hannah J Davies via The Guardian

And Just Like That (HBO Max)

Podcast about “There’s Something About Miriam” → Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera Written by Agnes Borinsky and hosted by Trace Lysette via Wondery

The Crown (Netflix)

Hanna’s Top 3 Shows of 2021:

1. It’s A Sin (Prime)
2. The White Lotus (HBO Max, Netflix)
3. Succession (HBO Max, Prime)

Thank you to our producers Joel Grove and Matt Viney-Bentley. See you in two weeks!

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Ernest Hemingway first arrived in Paris in December of 1921. One hundred years later, Emily in Paris is back for another season. Why, chers amis, do we continue to be captivated by stories of Americans in Paris? To get to the bottom of this question, Monica and Emma enlist the help of one of our favourite writers (about Paris and in general): the author and essayist Adam Gopnik. A New Yorker staff writer since 1986, Gopnik moved with his wife and infant son from New York to Paris in 1995 and began filing real-life French dispatches under the New Yorker’s then-editor Tina Brown. Select essays from the “Paris Journal,” as the dispatches were known in the magazine, became his book Paris to the Moon (2000), which one might argue was responsible for rekindling North Americans’ infatuation with Paris for a new generation. In this interview with Gopnik, we seek to understand why it is that, as Oscar Wilde once put it, “when good Americans die, they go to Paris.”

Thank you for listening! Send us your thoughts, feelings, reactions in an email or voice note: [email protected]. 

(North) Americans in Paris playlist by D.J. Monicuddles

Books, authors, etc. in order of mention:

Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik

At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik

Through the Children’s Gate by Adam Gopnik

Leaving Paris by Tigran Hamasyan

A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik

“Why Don’t the French Celebrate Lafayette?” by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker

The Garden of Eden, a posthumously published novel by Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada by Bruce McCall

“Is There a Crisis in French Cooking?” and “Couture Shock” by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker (also in Paris to the Moon)

Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Thank you to our producers Joel Grove and Matt Viney-Bentley.

C’est tout! Thank you for rating + reviewing + recycling + subscribing.

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Disclaimer: You may want to plug in your earphones for this one–it’s a bit spicy. In our second episode, Emma and Monica attempt to defrost the long, cold nights of winter with a conversation about sex in fiction. After a spirited game of two truths and a lie, we discuss our bedside reads of the year, from Sally Rooney’s new take on steamy millennial malaise in Beautiful World, Where Are You to Tia Williams’s Seven Nights in June, by way of Bridget Jones, Anne Boleyn, Jane Eyre, Jilly Cooper, Emma’s mom Colleen Flood, and more (see notes below). We talk about how books that *go there* have enlightened and entertained us over the years, read out some passages we love, and argue in favour of reading across the brows.

Thank you for listening! Send us your thoughts, feelings, reactions in an email or voice note: [email protected]. 

Monica Ainley DLV @monicaainleyDLV

Emma Knight @emmalknight

Hot tracks for cold nights playlist by D.J. Monicuddles

Books, authors, etc. in order of mention:

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Female Spanish thriller writer Carmen Mola revealed to be three men (Three not four!)

James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little F***bird” by Nadja Spiegelman in The Paris Review

Middlemarch by George Elliot (Emma’s fanfic as yet unwritten)

Breath by James Nestor

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Normal People by Sally Rooney (+ screen adaptation!)

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

Emma’s early education in “Chick Lit” (said with love): Sophie Kinsella, Jane Green, Marian Keyes, Meg Cabot

Judy Blume!! Where would the world be without her!?

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Hilary Mantel Trilogy: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Allan Gurganus

Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex by Sarah Lyall for NYTimes

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë + 2011* film adaptation (*not 2016! Another fact check) directed by Cary Fukunaga

Bridgerton written by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill

Emma’s mom, Colleen Flood, author of Bonding with Gravity

Thank you to our producers Joel Grove and Matt Bentley-Viney.

C’est tout! Thank you for rating + reviewing + recycling + subscribing.

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In our inaugural episode, we host an imaginary dinner party complete with menu and wardrobe for someone whose work we have been fanning out over since we were mere children in safari shorts and sweater vests: the journalist/writer/director/New York wit extraordinaire, Nora Ephron. Emma plans the menu, Monica plans the fashion, and special guest and fellow superfan Pandora Sykes arrives in time for pie. Trust us, even if you’ve never seen When Harry Met Sally or You’ve Got Mail, you won’t feel like a wallflower at this Nora Ephron fan orgy.*

*You’ll have to listen to see why we are talking about orgies.

Thank you for coming! Send us your thoughts, feelings, asterices, and addenda in an email or voice note: [email protected]. 

Socialize with us:

Monica Ainley de La Villardière @monicaainleyDLV

Emma Knight @emmalknight

Zachary Kolomeir @thebusboy

Pandora Sykes @pandorasykes

Play(list) with us:

Ode to Nora Ephron Playlist on Spotify by DJ Monicuddles DLV

Cook with us, aka the Fare of the Fans:

Pommes Dauphine by Guy Savoy via NYTimes Cooking (similar to Zach’s wondrous instructions but w/ some measurements etc.)

Nora Ephron’s Mashed Potatoes for One from The Cut (in case you’re not in a choux pastry kind of mood)

Boeuf Bourguignon by Julia Child tweaked by Karina of Cafe Delites (don’t throw that pan at us! She saves you some washing-up)

Mushroom Bourguignon by Melissa Clark via NYTimes Cooking (an umami plant-forward alternative that’s just as comforting)

Nora Ephron’s Vinaigrette via Food and Wine (or just remember the magic formula: 2-2-6)

Nora Ephron’s Recipe for Curing Infidelity aka Key Lime Pie via People (!)

Raw, Vegan Key Lime Cups by Tara Tomulka via the Greenhouse blog six years ago (!!)

Watch with us:

Everything Is Copy by Jacob Bernstein, the source of most of Emma’s (fact-check pending) know-it-all assertions

You’ve Got Mail

When Harry Met Sally

Sleepless in Seattle

Julie & Julia

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