We Had It So Good (2011)
“He rebelled against his wife’s healthy nutrition plan and her new mantra of eating only when you are hungry and stopping when you are full. He was the rationalist, not she, yet he found her regime joyless. Eating connected him back to his mother’s kitchen, to her cake-baking, to his first experiments with the principles of chemistry, and how ingredients like butter, sugar, eggs and flour lost all resemblance to their original selves when combined. But he still enjoyed eating the results of the ...experiments.
No, food was more than fuel in ways he was not particularly interested in examining. In the BBC canteen at lunchtime, he chose the lasagne, the fish and chips, the quiches, and experimented with English desserts like jam roly-poly and trifle. He learned to like custard and what the British called biscuits. The only thing he drew the line at was Christmas pudding and mince pies, for what was the point of a dessert made out of dried fruit? Had the British never heard of pecans, chocolate?MoreLess
No, food was more than fuel in ways he was not particularly interested in examining. In the BBC canteen at lunchtime, he chose the lasagne, the fish and chips, the quiches, and experimented with English desserts like jam roly-poly and trifle. He learned to like custard and what the British called biscuits. The only thing he drew the line at was Christmas pudding and mince pies, for what was the point of a dessert made out of dried fruit? Had the British never heard of pecans, chocolate?MoreLess
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