Spent yesterday cooking and eating mainly, we made icecream and tiramasu, an omlette and had a barbeque. Warm summer days are quite inspiring for cooking I think. Having been in Italy recently I have realised just how much of the food that we eat in the UK is inspired by Italy, Spain and France. We would not have olive oil or countless vegetables without the influence of the Mediterranean and North Africa. The UK is a great place to draw all of these influences together, without them our food might be quite dull. Classic british dishes do not really inspire me - roasts, fish and chips, vinegar instead of oil and our own snack food toast. Not quite pizza or bruschetta... I'm not damning our food, but realising that I do not really eat British food very much.
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I'm damning it, it's (mostly) rubbish ;)
Even good foreign food we seem to manage to copy badly or bastardise beyond recognition - e.g. baked bean pizza etc.
There is a glimmer of hope however, in the attempts to revive good local british produce such as cheeses, sausages and rare breeds of meat and poultry. We need to learn that good dishes require good ingredients.
Lucy