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Cargando... Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odysseypor Felicity Cloake
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The charming and joyful follow-up book from 'the nation's taster in chief,' Felicity Cloake. If there's one thing that truly unites this country from Aberdeen to Abernethy, St Ives to St Pancras, it's an obsession with breakfast. We all have an opinion on the merits of brown sauce versus ketchup on our morning sandwich. No other country's culinary identity is so bound up with breakfast - the French may love their croissants, the Chinese their congee, but they're rarely held up as national symbols in the same way as a Full English, an Ulster fry or a bowl of porridge. A good breakfast is our birth right, eaten with as much relish in the Wolsey on Piccadilly as in Terry's Caff in Borough. In this eagerly anticipated follow up to One More Croissant for the Road, Felicity Cloake sets off on an epic bike ride round Britain to celebrate and investigate the legendary Great British Breakfast. She rates fry-ups on criteria from the crispness of the bacon to how long they keep her pedalling and stops for fact-based tea-breaks in place of last time's pause cafe. And a woman cannot live by All Day Breakfast alone, so as well as recipes for things like Omelette Arnold Bennett or proper porridge, she will report back on the delights of regional specialities she encounters along the way, from Lancashire hotpot to Welsh cakes, Balti to boxty and everything else that takes her fancy en route. All washed down with tea, naturally. From the less celebrated breakfast items that often cause puzzlement to visitors abroad - baked beans on toast, for example, or Marmite or Weetabix - to the homely foods of different communities, the halwa puris and Polish rye breads, grilled plantain and century eggs, Felicity will take them all in. Her mission is to eat all the best breakfasts of Britain - whether a crumpet hot from the factory production line in Enfield or a desi breakfast in Birmingham or even a pease pudding stottie cake from the original Greggs in Gosforth, this will be a true tour of Britain. And Britain is a country that runs on breakfast. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Felicity has apparently undertaken a similar tour before - around France, and this time thought the Great Brtiish Fried Breakfast would be a worth counterpoint to the miles. However the idea was conceived just as Covid hit, and undertaken just as the rules were lifted, so many of her experiences are limited by that - and as such the book hasn't aged that well onlya couple fo years later it feels a little forced, and the penury of those times has faded.
Although the cycling barely features she rode 2388km which is very impressive, especially as early on she tore a hamstring and took the train quite a bit. 48 breakfasts are recorded, not all in great detail - many were just a bun or a roll from a garage. Again this slightly 'lite' take on things mars some of the otherwise pretentious seriousness to which a breakfast can be taken.
I'm a fairly serious breakfast person, but have recently taken to weekends only, and so probably an ideal audience for this book, somehow a few of the ideas didn't really work for me. Covid prevented her visiting some of the key manufacturers which was a shame. But the central point - whether it's kippers or bacon or marmalade is that Service is a very hard industry and the best quality isn't cheap and comes from small producers who will go out of breakfast if we don't support them.
Probably not a book intended for visitors, it expects a degree of familiarity with the british countryside and locations, with our food and culture. But also goes to show just how varied and interesting that can be. Although the cycling isn't given much description, it's partly because she doesn't have many issues which is a great reason to cycle - and you fully deserve full fry up when you're putting in the miles. (