Tuesday's Quote of the Day
09:19 UK time, Tuesday, 23 September 2008
"The food looks good, but has no smell and almost no taste and is not very nourishing" - Spanish aristocrat Luisa de Carvajal takes a dim view of London food in 1605
Continental Europe has traditionally taken a dim view of English food, and Carvajal, sent to London in 1605 by the Jesuits to preach Catholicism was no exception. Her letters home have been translated for the first time and she complains about the English habit of roasting everything or putting it in pastry.
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