Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

Proper British cookery is unknown

It was always a victim of the class system. The wealthy ate
well

economics (and the class system by extension) drives culinary
excellence as well.

Granted.

But the poor in France and Italy managed to eat tasty things (or at
least things made tasty by their efforts.)

I think that the general level of eating in
the Isles is mostly reflective of their
general agricultural backwardness, which is
more climate-driven

You raise a good point. A lot of Scandinavian (or more properly
Nordic) dishes are pretty dereft of taste, although not calories,
especially Iceland's and Greenland's.

I have discovered lately, as a result of that collection of
Lithuanian recipes I downloaded, that the Baltic States share a lot
of food similarities with the Nordic countries, which makes sense
given their common climate, terrain and proximity to each other and
the Herring Sea.

"what about Cheddar?"
Turns out that a large percentage of Cheddar eaten
in Britain comes from the Republic of Ireland

A lot of Cheddar is made all over the world. And a lot of different
Cheddars. It's not a protected name or process. And it's too late
for the town of Cheddar or the Shire of Somerset to take action at
this point. They have recently though come up with the PDO of "West
Country Farmhouse Cheddar" for Cheddar produced from local milk
within Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall counties and made using
traditional methods. I have had some once and it's very good but it
$60/kg in Yellowknife, so I will continue buying Canadian.

This strikes me as a desperation dish for someone who must eat way
too many potatoes

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Title: Lithuanian Red Sauce for Boiled Potatoes
Categories: Lithuanian, Potatoes, Sauces
Yield: 4 servings

1/2 l Fermented beet juice
2 tb Flour
1 Finely grated onion
Salt and pepper to taste

Gently heat fermented beet juice and stirring constantly add flour,
onion, salt and pepper. Bring to a gentle boil, heat until sauce
thickens.

Lithuanian National Cultural Center
From: http://www.lnkc.lt
Compiled by Birute Imbrasiene
Translated by Giedre Ambrozaitiene

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Cheers

Jim


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