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Why English Food Isn't A Joke
I could list a hundred reasons why English food isn't a joke - from our beef to our cheese to our asparagus to our raspberries to our clotted cream to our cornish pasties to our apples to our... the list goes on. Below is my A-Z of English Food - it's not complete yet, so please let me know if you have any suggestions for this!
- Asparagus (see my posts here, here and here and Scott's soup recipe )
- Acton (Eliza)
- Beeton (Mrs) (see Nick's post on what's in season acording to Mrs B)
- Black Pudding
- Bread and Butter Pudding
- Cromer Crab (see my post here )
- Cumberland Sausages
- Clotted Cream
- Cockles
- Chapel Down (Pinot Noir Rondo 2004, Pinot Reserve 2001)
- Discovery apples
- David (Elizabeth)
- Eccles Cakes
- Essex Salt-marsh Lamb (see my rack of lamb recipe from 2006)
- Earl Grey Tea
- Fat Duck Restaurant
- Faggots
- Gin
- Grigson (Jane)
- Gooseberries
- IPA (India Pale Ale)
- Jelly and ice cream
- Jam - see The Cottage Smallholder for blackberry jam
- Kent hops
- Kent cobnuts (see my recipe for cobnut pesto)
- Kent apples... Kent in general?
- Lancashire Hotpot
- London Pride
- Melton Mobray Pork Pies
- Nyetimber sparkling wine
- Old Spot (Gloucester) Pork (see my post from 2005)
- Potted Shrimps
- Queen of Puddings
- Rib of Beef (see Ginger's recent post )
- Rhubarb & Custard (see my rhubarb and custard tart post or my rhubarb trifle post)
- Stilton
- Slater (Nigel)
- Strawberries
- Sloe gin (see the series of posts at The Cottage Smallholder)
- Treacle Tart
- ???
- Venison (see my recipe for Venison Wellington one for Venison with Sloe Gin and one for Venison with pimenton)
- Whitstable Oysters
- ???
- Yorkshire Pudding
- ???
This is my belated post as part of the Fish & Quips event.
This is a great idea! I can see why you're stuck on a few there
though...will have a think!
Thanks for coming by, Ginger...
I might keep this one going, and put together a list of things rather than
just one item... I could even link around the blogosphere I guess to
recipes and articles... we'll see!
I like this list. Except for Nigel Slater who puts me to sleep with his
soporific voice. Maybe you could replace him with Nyetimber? :-)
I'm not sure the readers of the Observer would be happy to see Nigel Slater
replaced with a bottle of Nyetimber... but you never know?
An inspiring list and an intriguing puzzle to fill those tricky gaps. How
about Zuppa Inglese (Italy's take on that great British invention, trifle)
or EliZa Acton (a bit weak, I know, but she deserves a place)? (Thanks too
for the link to my Beeton post.)
Can't have udon noodles - gotta be English... so still stuck on a few
letters...
Love the list! Everything from Earl Grey tea to India Pale Ale. An
indispensable little list which sums up the best of English cuisine
perfectly.
Durrr, I just saw your point about Udon noodles!
I always associate scallops with Scotland - don't know why - are they dived
for of English waters too? (Is 'dived' really the past tense of 'dive'?
How about 'dove for'?)
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