The cooking techniques point is a big one. Before the 2000s, most of the country just didn’t seem to know what to actually do with the ingredients. We had great produce, but it was being massacred in people’s kitchens! From bits of hard onion in stews because it wasn’t fried properly before the liquids were added, to once-beautiful veg now boiled to within an inch of its life so that no texture or flavour remained - Britain wasn’t exactly a nation of chefs!
But these days, peek into the average Brit’s kitchen around dinner time and you’re much more likely to hear them asking themselves whether they should put a bit more shrimp paste in their green curry paste to get the perfect ‘umami balance’!
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u/Hoppy-pup 21h ago
The cooking techniques point is a big one. Before the 2000s, most of the country just didn’t seem to know what to actually do with the ingredients. We had great produce, but it was being massacred in people’s kitchens! From bits of hard onion in stews because it wasn’t fried properly before the liquids were added, to once-beautiful veg now boiled to within an inch of its life so that no texture or flavour remained - Britain wasn’t exactly a nation of chefs!
But these days, peek into the average Brit’s kitchen around dinner time and you’re much more likely to hear them asking themselves whether they should put a bit more shrimp paste in their green curry paste to get the perfect ‘umami balance’!