Submitted by Megan V. Fennell, Babylon Idiomas teacher, Sevilla I can see that David has done his bit to defend American cooking in an earlier blog, and I think it’s time to do the same for the British. I recently asked some of my students what they thought about British food and most of them just assumed I was joking and laughed. Fair enough – admittedly we don’t have a great reputation for cuisine, particularly in Europe, but I hasten to point out that the British brought the world...
When most Europeans think of American food, they usually think of greasy fast food, high -priced coffee, excessive Thanksgiving feasts, or even fad diet plans. Unfortunately, corporate interests and Hollywood have exported this notion of American culture to the rest of the world. Having grown up in the middle part of the USA in a family that takes its cooking seriously, I resent the fact that so little is known the great food that I remember. In an effort to educate the world about some great...