I was at a party recently when a twenty-something man asked me what I like to cook at home. I told him I cook quite a lot of French-inspired food and he looked at me with what can only be described as pity. "Don't you find that a bit… limiting?" The "Grandma" was silent.
After a couple of decades of gleefully tucking into Italian, Spanish and now Scandinavian recipes at home, it seems we've fallen out of love with the cuisine that helped reignite our love of food in the 1950s and 1960s. And the younger crowd never fell in love with it at all, associating it with lengthy preparation and elaborate presentation. Cordon Blah just didn't chime with the Jamie Generation. Contiue Reading...
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