British Cooking is Alive and Well

‘The essentials of English cooking are roasts of beef, mutton and lamb, the various meats cooked in salt water, in the manner of fish and vegetable ... fruit preserves, puddings of all kinds, chicken and turkey with cauliflower, salt beef, country ham and several similar ragouts – that is the sum of English cooking,’ says Antonin Carême, who clearly has not met the people I have. It is true that British cooking used to be a terrible joke all over the world but, happily, times have changed.