Pie Fidelity (Penguin Orange Spines)

A journey through British food, from the acclaimed author of The Apple Orchard

In Britain, we have always had an awkward relationship with food. We've been told for so long that we are terrible cooks and yet when someone with a clipboard asks us what the best things are about being British, our traditional food and drink are more important than the monarchy and at least as significant as our landscape and national monuments in defining a collective notion of who we are.

Taking nine archetypically British dishes - Pie and Peas, A Cheese Sandwich, Fish and Chips, Spag Bol, Devonshire Cream Tea, Curry, The Full English, The Sunday Roast and a Crumble with Custard - and enjoying them in their most typical settings, Pete Brown examines just how fundamental food is to our sense of identity, perhaps even our sense of pride, and the ways in which we understand our place in the world.

O calatorie prin mancarea britanica, de la apreciatul autor al The Apple OrchardIn Britain, am avut intotdeauna o relatie incomoda cu mancarea. Ni s-a spus de atat de mult timp ca suntem bucatari teribili si totusi, cand cineva cu clipboard ne intreaba care sunt cele mai bune lucruri despre a fi britanici, mancarea si bautura noastra traditionala sunt mai importante decat monarhia si cel putin la fel de semnificative ca peisajul nostru si monumente nationale in definirea unei notiuni colective despre cine suntem. Luand noua feluri de mancare arhetipic britanice - Pie and Peas, A Cheese Sandwich, Fish and Chips, Spag Bol, Devonshire Cream Tea, Curry, The Full English, The Sunday Roast and a Crumble cu Custard - si bucurandu-se de ele in cele mai tipice setari, Pete Brown examineaza cat de fundamentala este mancarea pentru simtul nostru de identitate, poate chiar sentimentul de mandrie si modalitatile prin care ne intelegem locul in lume.