[Sca-cooks] pub food, was Re: Ramsey RE: risotto...
Pixel, Goddess and Queen
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com
Tue Aug 9 12:22:20 PDT 2011
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, James Prescott wrote:
> At 12:43 PM -0500 8/9/11, Michael Gunter wrote:
>
>> I do find it amusing at the sudden surge of British cooking since it has
>> always been
>> considered the worst food around.
>
>
> Many years ago, driving around the Lake District, we noticed a sign on
> a rural pub: "Lamb Steaks". Had to stop.
>
> Absolutely wonderful. Not foodie stuff, just simple excellent cooking.
>
> So I've for many years known that sometimes in the most obscure places
> in the UK you can sometimes get good food. Their Indian and vegetarian
> restaurants were very often excellent, but that doesn't quite count as
> offsetting the usual semi-vile stuff.
>
>
> Thorvald
Every time we have been to England we've always eaten in pubs. I have
never had a bad meal at a pub. I think the cuisine that is meant
when British cooking is reviled is Victorian
boil-everything-to-bland-mush rather than pub fare.
Margaret fitz William
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