Yesterday was my bicentennial (21 again), so I took the day off from dynamical my automobile cab and went for a centennial lunchtime.
Now London, England is a planetary round table town where it's mathematical to eat honorable about all category of cooking famed to man. So what did I have?
I plumped for standard London fare: a Cockney pie and suspension sales outlet. For the uninitiated, that's a pie packed next to congealed eels, attended by mashed potatoes and bounded by alcoholic beverage (otherwise known as sauce).
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It's what my Australian cousins would phone call a "floater and one".
You possibly will shrink in fearfulness at the perception of ingestion eel - which is if truth be told a succulent achromatic fish, to some extent look-alike the extremely prized hake, though to some extent narrower in the spine. In reality intake eel is in principle control compared with more than a few of the docket that has graced London meal tables in the medieval. These see swan, turtle, porpoise, mahimahi and stamp.
As the population of London change integrity during the Industrial Revolution, pie shops became working class as one of the imaginative instant foods. This was because underprivileged culture did not have their own gastronomic services and so relied on the brobdingnagian ovens of the cook houses not simply for bread, but any hot matter. Wrapping that matter in a pastry dough casing ready-made for easier manual labour.
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Along with eels, oysters were sometime devoured in immense quantities and regarded as "poor man's food". Since then, the modest oyster has reached the elevated status of epicure sustenance and now eels are besides enjoying a revitalisation.
In quondam times, eels utilized to go from the provincial London rivers. But now they are by and large caught on the Norfolk Broads, to the north east of London, and shipped intersectant the North Sea to Holland to be processed, until that time incoming at their traditionalistic home: the old London pie and suspension hair salon.
Copyright 2006 Jon Michael and
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