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[ShawtyCat]

I have been reading a post on British cooking and the general world view that British food is relatively poor in taste, or bland rather. The arguement of the British lacking a Peasant Cuisine to fall back on was brought up and I wanted to know your view on this issue. Is Traditional British Food as bland as many make it out to be and do you find it to be true that the British lean heavily on French cuisine and training?

[tripe]

This may have been the case. Rationing during and after the war destroyed most of our heritage. Like any natural disaster we recover. Now our ingredients and skills match anywhere else.
If it was all so poor why did Careme, Escoffier and Soyer to name a gfew up sticks from home and move to England?

[Spoonful]

To eat Indian food

Sorry, just couldn't resist!

[Adam Balic]

Tripe - when people talk of "Traditional British Food", are the really saying "Victorian English Food", or is there any attempt to revive recipes/cooking techniques from earlier periods? For example the cooking of Robert May in the Restoration period or food from the Georgian period?

[tripe]

many yes, as it is an easy period to access. I have seen little evidenc of other eras