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Laver
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Published 1932
Devonshire, Somerset and Wales
We English folk don’t know our wealth — we used to be called a nation of shopkeepers but we are not nearly so good at discovering marketable products as the French, and nothing like as good at marketing and advertising those we do know.
Laver is a case in point. It is an edible seaweed that abounds on our Western coast. Before the invasion of French chefs in 1848 it was common enough in London; Mr.
‘The French know it not —and for that matter indeed they are far behind England and Holland in their knowledge of all marine products. When French cookery took form there were no railways and the great metropolis of cooks was too far away from the seaboard to enable them to do justice to sea fish.…
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