The food here in the USA has been an experience. I have had some of the best pizza I’ve ever enjoyed outside of Italy. It’s hard to decide between an amazing Detroit-style pizza in Vegas, or the fabulous award-winning pies in San Francisco’s North Beach. In a wonderful twist of this globalised world we live in, one of the best meals I’ve ever had was at Gordon Ramsey’s Hells Kitchen on the Vegas strip. I’ve had some good meals in DC too. Yet for all that, there are some elements of British cuisines, such as it is, that I look forward to:
- A proper English breakfast. I’ve enjoyed some Irish breakfasts, some have even managed proper bacon, but none have competed with what I can look forward to back in Blighty. I’m especially confident of saying that having experienced the St Andrew’s clubhouse breakfast.
- Sucuk. Ok, so it’s not strictly British cuisine (another dose of globalisation) and I’m sure that I could find it here in the States. I’m really looking forward to going to my favourite cafe back in Warrington and having a halloumi and sucuk baguette.
- Actual fish and chips, with decent batter and real chips (not fries, or wedges, or whatever other abomination passes for chips here). Needless to say there will need to be lashings of salt and vinegar!
- Saving the best ’til last: pork pies! I got very excited when I saw what looked like actual pies and pasties at a little food counter in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. The pastry was good, but it was all in South American style. I just want an actual pork pie, and a meat pie and maybe a sausage roll too! My favourite bakery may be getting a special order: a tray of meat pies. I’d love to say they wouldn’t all be for me…
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