In article , Cape Cod Bob
wrote:
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:09:07 +1000, wrote:
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:25:39 +0100, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:
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I totally agree, Larry. In France or Italy or the middle east working
people can eat excellent food in excellent, cheap restaurants. Not in
the Anglophone world, I'm afraid.
Lazarus
Nonsense. In the US any area around a college will have excellent and
inexpensive food - often a UN of ethnic choices.
In the hinterlands are many decent, down-to-earth restaurants and
diners serving super local specialties.
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I've had a few, but only a few, good, cheap meals made from fresh,
local, seasonal ingredients in the US. In states such as Mississippi
and Texas I've had to travel hundreds of miles to find anywhere that
wasn't serving fast food.
Whereas virtually every small town/large village even in remote regions
from Spain to to the Afghan border will have delicious, freshly made
meals, made with fresh local seasonal ingredients, probably served with
excellent bread freshly made by a local artisinal baker.
I'm not being nationalistic here - my own country's food is wretchedly
bad on the whole.
I think the 'UN of ethnic choices' is significant. Cities in the US &
England are full of 'foreign' restaurants, whereas they're
comparatively unusual in, say, Italy or Turkey, where people
concentrate on using fresh, local seasonal ingredients well.
Lazarus