English Provincial Cooking

The provincial cookery of England is like a tapestry of the culinary arts embroidered to show the seven main regions into which the land and the people seem to divide naturally. The tapestry is intricately worked to illustrate the long tradition of English cooking, both grand and simple, and makes it plain that to understand the differences in the particular dishes of the different provinces we must make a historical journey as we as a geographical one around the coasts and over the countryside.