SC - olives in period spanish recipes?

[Christina Nevin]

Ras wrote:

> I have been following this thread somewhat. My question is why in the
world
> would anyone want to go to a US type bar when traveling in a foreign
country
> let alone England.

Because I'm an English-born New Zealander, American food is 'foreign' to me.
At first I wanted to see if there was more to American cuisine than Cajun
food (which I love) hotdogs (which I also love) and hamburgers (which I
don't). Like I said, I got hooked on Buffalo Wings. :-)

I don't regard fast food chains such as McDonalds, BurgerKing, KFC etc as
indicative of American cuisine or even as restaurants, no matter what they
call them. I also don't patronise them myself because life is too short to
eat substandard fodder and I really just don't like the taste. I also spent
2 months in Germany in 1986 eating McDs for lunch almost every day - quite
enough to put you off the stuff for life. 

Aside from which, eating any form of beef product in Europe nowadays is like
Russian Roulette - the gun may have several thousand empty chambers, but I'm
not taking the chance.

If you want fast food in England you go into a sandwich bar (of which they
even have chains such as the extremely good Pret a Manger), the quality of
which is usually high. I've only been to San Diego but I've been told you
don't really get sandwich bars in the US? 

	[Please, please note that nowhere, at any time in my life, have I
ever
	ascribed to the idea that English food is bad. That perception does
	exist, and in some cases it is not unjustified, but as a cuisine, it
is
	glorious, when done properly.]

Too true! All together now:
"No such thing as a bad cuisine, just bad cooks!"
:-) 
Ciao
Lucrezia


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