Introduction

The English appetite is becoming more adventurous. In the past people have been known to comment that foreign food had “too much flavour”. Nowadays we go abroad more for our holidays, and restaurants serving food from almost every country have sprung up not only in London but in most provincial towns. However, an outing to even a modest restaurant is every day more expensive and there are many delicious exotic dishes which, for some reason, never appear on the restaurant menu. It is far better to experiment at home.