If British food has come in for a bit of mockery over the years, it isn’t because the recipes are wrong. It’s because they’re misunderstood. We call sausages “toads.” We cover offal in ...

British cuisine has, fairly or not, been the butt of countless jokes. Its critics insist that the food in the U.K. is too gloopy, too bland, too boring to earn a place in the pantheon of haute ...

March 24, 2025 Food Matters takes a closer look at what we eat and how it defines us. It’s hard to describe classic British dishes without reinforcing the stereotype that English food is bland ...

If British food has come in for a bit of mockery over the years, it isn’t because the recipes are wrong. It’s because they’re misunderstood. We call sausages “toads.” We cover offal in ...