On Sep 19, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> variety, food that was often poor quality, and frequent shortages.
> 1964? I don't think so. Perhaps, with due respect, you went to the
> wrong places
London, for one. This is what my English friends told me at the time,
too.
>
> The growing internationalism might be welcomed, but the downside is
> the year round stocking of perishable goods regardless of season,
> which has developed since those days; and that is not good, though it
> may be interesting
>
> Elizabeth David and others had a lot to do with the opening up of the
> British taste
Yes, I bought her Penguin paperbacks on French Country Cooking and
Mediterranean cooking, and that's how I learned to cook, as much as I
ever did.
> and thus the increase in demand, and that was before the supermarkets
> got going. So, too, did cheap foreign travel to the continent of
> Europe.
While traveling in '64-65 on one of those cheap trains to Italy, I met
a chef who spent half a year at a fancy hotel in the Mediterranean and
half somewhere in the UK, and he went on at length how the war had
destroyed British taste, so that people ate pastries and baked goods of
far lower quality than before . . . and didn't like the better things
they used to prefer. Of cousre, all chefs rant. . . .
>
George P. Landow
Professor of English and the History of Art
Brown University
www.landow.com
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