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imports, and ration their use of home-grown food. The Ministry of
Food published cheap, boring recipes. The joke of the war was a dish
called Woolton Pie (named after the Minister for Food!). This consisted
of a mixture of boiled vegetables covered in white sauce with mashed
potato on the top. Britain never managed to recover from the wartime
attitude to food. We were left with a loss of confidence in our cooking
skills and after years of Ministry recipes we began to believe that British
food was boring, and we searched the world for sophisticated, new
dishes which gave hope of a better future. The British people became
tourists at their own dining tables and in the restaurants of their land!
This is a tragedy! Surely food is as much a part of our culture as
our landscape, our language, and our literature. Nowadays, cooking
British food is like speaking a dead language. It is almost as bizarre as
having a conversation in Anglo-Saxon English!
5. However, there is still one small ray of hope. British pubs are
often the best places to eat well and cheaply in Britain, and they also
increasingly try to serve tasty British food. Can we recommend to you
our two favourite places to eat in Britain? The Shepherd’s Inn in
Melmerby, Cumbria, and the Dolphin Inn in Kingston, Devon. Their
steak and mushroom pie, Lancashire hotpot, and bread and butter
pudding are three of the gastronomic wonders of the world!
Ex. 2. Match a paragraph 1-5 with a summary below.
- Historical and climatic influences on British cooking.
- There’s everything except an English restaurant.
- The legacy of World War II.
- Where there is hope for the future.
- The British love affair with international cooking.
Ex. 3. Ask 12 questions to the text and have them answered.
Ex. 4. Retell the text.
DIALOGUE.
Ex. 1. Read and translate the dialogue.
In a Restaurant
Fred: Let’s go in here. The restaurants aren’t very crowded in the
day time on weekdays, and I like a change from the cafeteria
now and then. Here is a table.

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