A real oddity appears here. We have a UK food group where the impression being given is that there is either a lack of a British cuisine or it has been superceded by traditions from elsewhere ;-)
cook book addicts do not read 36Following up to Don Gray But if you don't eat out, how do you know we compare well? Or perhaps that's not what your saying? I think...
I happen to believe that we have developed cuisine which ranks amongst the best that any country bar none has produced. The main difficulty that I perceive is that we have a developed tradition of always underming the best that we have to offer.
Since I retired I have been honing my culinary skills (or lack of them; *note the immediate, but ever-present depreciatory comment) on British dishes. I have been working on it for about 10 years and have still not run out of new ideas on old themes. I find it a great shame that we have failed to take example from and spread the gospel about the quality of most of our foods. I rarely eat out from restaurant fare, so I have no means of making an accurate comparison, or judgement of, the differences between the presented quality of British delicacies against those from the Europe, India, Asia or elsewhere, but I do know that we should favourably compare.
Cheers, Don
