I've finally gone back to Bake-off: The beginnings and the infamous bagel episode and WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT. WHY IS PAUL SAYING THE BAD BAGELS ARE OK.
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Also I like how these early showstoppers are like "do a biscuit!" and nowadays it's like "balance ten souffles on a delicate meringue tower with chocolate and sugar work and oh yeah it's 110 degrees outside... celsius."
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IM ON THE AMERICAN PIES EPISODE. WHAT HTE HELL IS THIS FRESH BULLSHIT.
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"to make a good american pie you almost have to make it british." THAT IS A FIGHT, PAUL HOLLYWOOD. WE ARE IN A FIGHT.
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Yeah, of course there's a bunch of over-sweet pies in this country, but you don't "make it british." You just balance the sweetness with the right amounts of bitter, tart, and salty notes, you know, LIKE THE WAY YOU DO IN ALL PROPER COOKING FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS THE WORLD.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Fine. I'll take the world class chefs, exceptionally popular cookery programmes AND somehow still having a reputation for terrible national cuisine, with me. And a pack of biscuits, too.
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To be clear, I'm insane about food and in particular the world of top flight restaurants. I follow Blumenthal, Bloomfield, Siadatan, etc. pretty adamantly. British cuisine is not terrible. Of course not. No modern western juggernaut really is these days.
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But I'm gonna be pretty forthright when I say that british cuisine doesn't even belong in the top 20 convo of most vibrant international food scenes right now.
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Not when there's the standbyes of france and japan, with the vivid power of mexico, denmark, scandanavia, brazil, vietnam, argentina and peru coming into beautiful focus.
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And of course america itself, which in reality is so strange and vibrant and as different regionally-speaking as some european countries are from each other.
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Agreed. The vibrancy of discovering, for example, Peruvian cuisine (indeed, one of my favourite restaurants is pan-latin), is way beyond what you'll find fresh and new in anything British, which will usually be region-specific or brought over from another country's culture.
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