Dining After 'Downton Abbey': Why British Food Was So Bad For So Long : NPR<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDining was a very, very big deal in Edwardian England \u2014 and the food, it turns out, was pretty sophisticated. So why was British food derided as boring, tasteless fare for much of the 20th century? He…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I actually enjoyed British food on my trips over there in the 90s and later — decent pub food, Indian, this and that. But British food still has a rep as being awful. So … why? 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