http://www.delongwine.com/news/2006/01/09/an-offal-time-at-st-john/ An American Winegeek in London Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:39:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.delongwine.com/news/2006/01/09/an-offal-time-at-st-john/comment-page-1/#comment-3509 De Long Wine Moment » Blog Archive » Wine Pairings with British Foods Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:29:28 +0000 http://www.delongwine.com/news/?p=35#comment-3509 [...] Actually I think the British unfairly get a bad rap for their food. There’s a great culinary tradition that exists cheek by jowl with a fairly bad restaurant tradition. Let’s face it the popular conception of grey meats and khaki-coloured vegetables drenched in an unnameable industrial gravy had to have started somewhere. Sure, there are some great restaurants like The Fat Duck that duels with Spain’s El Bulli for top honors as the best restaurant in the world, but your average London pub still isn’t a great ambassador of cuisine. Great traditional British cooking is mainly found in homes (like my in-laws!) or in better gastropubs or restaurants like St. John. [...] [...] Actually I think the British unfairly get a bad rap for their food. There’s a great culinary tradition that exists cheek by jowl with a fairly bad restaurant tradition. Let’s face it the popular conception of grey meats and khaki-coloured vegetables drenched in an unnameable industrial gravy had to have started somewhere. Sure, there are some great restaurants like The Fat Duck that duels with Spain’s El Bulli for top honors as the best restaurant in the world, but your average London pub still isn’t a great ambassador of cuisine. Great traditional British cooking is mainly found in homes (like my in-laws!) or in better gastropubs or restaurants like St. John. [...]

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