Food
Sunday, Sunday
ay what you like about all its own. In this form it goes with contained the souls of the dead’. being suitable for food or medicine;
the recent and never- everything, and pretty quickly too Not too worried about this putting they were fed to adog, then aS
ending grindhouseofTV when it’sanywhere in arms length people offtoday,asthey sit in servant and, if they survived, the
cookery shows,with the cooks of this humble scribe. piled mounds in all shops and emperor would then set about them.
now elevated to superstardom supermarkets ready for their There have also been discoveries
status just for being able to boil a Walter Raleigh, in the late 16th excursion to the dining table. of charred remains of peas found
pan of water or peel asprout, etc, century,has been credited with Parsnipsare my own particular at Troy and Thebes in Egyptian
there is, for me, only one meal that bringing the potato to Britain, but favourite, but, as my wife Pat tombs of the 12th dynasty.But,
means anything to the average this masks the fact that at the time would say,“only when they have back to my theory that they of all
knife and fork fencer,and that’s the Spanish were long devotees of had the frost on them”. Yeh, right! vegetables on your plate cause the
Sunday lunch, or,asitisbetter the spud. Here’saninteresting most problems to eat, in Norse
known in its free-form guise, fact, the potato is actually in the Parsnips are acreamy, white- mythology,Thor gave peas to
‘Sunday Dinner’. same family group as deadly skinnedvegetable with asweet taste humans –asapunishment.
nightshade, and we all know how and lovelytexture, and, like alot of
Ihonestly don’tcare about we were told to avoid that like the thingswetake for granted, are rich Today,many pubs and carveries
getting the right blend of spices, or plague when we took our rambles in history. Again we have to thank in Britain have aspecial “Sunday
if the meat has been marinated in around the countryside as kids. the Romansfor cultivating them,and menu", that features aroast,
the right mixture of oils and Strange that. it is written somewhere that Emperor usually with avariety of meats and
vinegars, or getting the right blend vegetables available, and can be
of coloured dust to complement cheaper than the normal fayre on
some ‘experts’choice of wine. offer through the week.
For me, when it comes down to Idolove Sunday dinners, but
‘real cooking’you can’tbeat this here Ihave to eat my words, if you
great British heart-warming pardon the pun, as on the
tradition, served either early restaurant reviews that Ihave been
afternoon or lunchtime, with the lucky to have been assigned to for
main ingredients of roasted meat, Voice, some of the dishes have
roast potatoes, together with passed the ten out ten mark for
vegetables and gravy. taste and presentation.
Everyone should know by now But the straight up and down
the ingredients that make up this meat, vegetables, gravy and any
staple of the British way of life. beer,water,wine, either red, pink
Roast beef and veg will be bulked or white, the traditional Sunday
up with Yorkshire pudding, dinner takes some beating.
horseradish sauce, or English “when it comesdown to ‘real cooking’
mustard. Roast pork is all the Finally,Americans are long-
better for anice little mound of time critics of the ‘British style’ofyou can’tbeat thisgreat British
crackling and sage and onion cooking, don’tknow why here,
stuffing, and apple sauce they make the best burgers on theheart-warming tradition, servedeither
completing the picture. planet, and aDenny’sGrand Slam
breakfast is, as they say ‘to dieearlyafternoonorlunchtime...”
Roast lamb and mint sauce or for’, but, that’sit.
redcurrant jelly or cranberry sauce
can send it right offthe Testimonytothe appealofthe
‘mmmmmmm’scale. Roast Sunday dinner is ourAmerican in-
chicken, may be served with The runner bean blossom has Tiberius took them from Rome to laws, who on past visits always
chipolata sausages, pigs in neat little red flowers, which can France, and then onto Germany. managed to cleantheir plates,
blankets, stuffing, bread sauce, be seen up and down the land in a Away from the plate, parsnips especially the aforementioned
cranberry sauce or redcurrant jelly, myriad of allotments. Runner have awide range of uses; in parsnips, who my son’sfather-in-
and it takes some beating, no beans are one of the longest- Ireland they are used to make beer law could most probably cause a
matter how many times you have cultivatedvegetables, being an and wine.And here’sone to give one-man famine of the
it. But, where do these ingredients important alternative source of you asmile, they are believed by sweet things if he had his way.
come from? We all know where protein throughout world history. some folk to be an aphrodisiac.
the meat comes from, ie: cows, They are planted around the base Bonus! Dining out is still apopular
sheep, chicken, or,collectively of bamboo canes and then vine activity in this country,and the
known to everyone as ‘the their way up as the stalks grow. Iclose with the vegetable that, choice and value varies according
butchers’. Still in bean mode, broad beans surprisingly,brings out fear and to what you want to spend, but, if
are supposed to be quintessentially loathing to some –whether to prong you want to put the world to
Your basic vegetables start with English, but again the history or shovel, or if they are not hot rights, have some real quality time
the common potato, which truly books say differently.The enough –the pea. Peas have a with friends and family in relaxed
has found its place in history. Egyptians, Romans and the Greeks universal appeal.Archaeologists surroundings, then sitting around
all grew broad beans, and the have found them in tombs in either the Sunday dinner table is
There are aload of varieties, but Greek philosopher Pythagoras ancient China or Egypt. The Chinese definitely the place to be. Well,
for me it’swhen it dons its alter- supposedly forbade the eating of believed Emperor Shu Nung until the peas arrive!
ego, mash, that it really comes into broad beans because ‘they discovered peas 5,000 years ago, NigelCorten
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