Lovely to read this at the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19994411
With our barbecue teams doing well in US competitions, the future is surely rosy.
Steve W
British food doing well
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Verminskti
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Re: British food doing well
I have held for sometime the view that we have a delicious menu in this country. Our food is good honest food perfect for the weather we have. Who would say no to a hearty stew on a cold night after a hard days work? We've always been adventurous too Mrs Beeton writes numerous recipes for curries, Worcestershire sauce is a take off of foreign foods and HP sauce embodies the flavours of an empire.
Our cheeses are the best in the world, Our sausages the best in the world and our beer is the best in the world.
I put this to a Bosnian (With Polish Husband) friend who agreed with the cheese statement, disagreed with the sausage statement suggesting "what? those pink gooey things?" We did a comparison and I liked the Polish sausages on the grill but she loved the range and tastes of sausages from the butchers where she could see it was meat. Danny Wallace's friends like these talks of a gastro pub with a sausage flavour of the month remarking that sausages were once just sausages, occasionally pork and leek but otherwise pork or beef. Now they contain everything from cranberries to coconut as we don't rest on our laurels but celebrate regional traditional products and new culinary frankensteins.
As for beer my Bosnian friend caveated that she liked our stouts but suggested lagers were better in Eastern Europe. I would have agreed and insisted that actually one category of beer vs every other category until this weekend when I tried Meantime's Lager followed by a pint of Pilsner Urquell and found the Meantime a much better lager. Now I genuinely would say we have hit the leagues of good lager too. Best Cheese, Best Sausages and Best Beer.
The UK, Best in show!
Our cheeses are the best in the world, Our sausages the best in the world and our beer is the best in the world.
I put this to a Bosnian (With Polish Husband) friend who agreed with the cheese statement, disagreed with the sausage statement suggesting "what? those pink gooey things?" We did a comparison and I liked the Polish sausages on the grill but she loved the range and tastes of sausages from the butchers where she could see it was meat. Danny Wallace's friends like these talks of a gastro pub with a sausage flavour of the month remarking that sausages were once just sausages, occasionally pork and leek but otherwise pork or beef. Now they contain everything from cranberries to coconut as we don't rest on our laurels but celebrate regional traditional products and new culinary frankensteins.
As for beer my Bosnian friend caveated that she liked our stouts but suggested lagers were better in Eastern Europe. I would have agreed and insisted that actually one category of beer vs every other category until this weekend when I tried Meantime's Lager followed by a pint of Pilsner Urquell and found the Meantime a much better lager. Now I genuinely would say we have hit the leagues of good lager too. Best Cheese, Best Sausages and Best Beer.
The UK, Best in show!
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keith157
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Re: British food doing well
Have to agree with you. I'd have to clarify the sausage point UK HOT sausages are the best in the world, our charcuturie isn't quite up to continental standards............YET. I've tasted Welsh & other UK produced salami and it was very nice, we don't make the equivilent of the Frankfurter type sausage designed to be eaten hot or cold (at least I can't think of one at the moment) which are, I think, the kind you were referring to.