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Vive la Revolution! Giles and Sue are about to experience the 10 most tumultuous years in French history - 1785 to 1795. It was also the age of discovery with the arrival of electricity and hot air balloons (more on that later). Our Supersizers will be living as King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette in Vaux-le-Vicomte , the alleged inspiration for the Palace of Versailles . Their chef for the week is Mickael Weiss, head chef at the Coq D'Argent or as I like to call it The Money Chicken and which hilariously has the address of One Poultry. Michael's kitchen or l'office de la bouche is stuffed with supplies as gluttony is very much the order of the day, although 90% of the French population at the time lived on bread and soup. No white bread for them though - it was thought that aristocrats could only digest the finest, fluffiest white bread whilst the peasants were only allowed the coarsest brown. Michael's preparing only dishes from Massialot 's Cuisinier Ro...

Raid the dressing-up box, guys and gals, for this week the Supersizers turn Medieval ! Despite massive deja vu after Heston's Medieval Feast , the Middle Ages has always provided good tv fodder, and Giles and Sue throw themselves into the task with gay abandon. William the Conqueror had just dis-eyeballed Harold and England became overrun with Normans from France. So Giles is playing Norman Baron, and Sue is the Anglo-Saxon maiden who he's just conquered. They're living in Penshurst Place (I've been there!), the biggest Medieval manor in England. Martin Blunos is their chef for the week, and though he looks more Viking than Medieval, he also looks more fun than Marcus Wareing so I'm happy. Anyway, it seems Medieval folk had some funny ideas about food and health. Firstly, they believed that you were ruled by four humours : yellow bile (vomit), black pile (poo), blood and phlegm, and that each of these had a specific character trait. Too much yellow bile made yo...