SIR. I welcome the German Market. Apart from jugged hare, roast dinners and shepherd's pie (which must have a few drops of that wonderful British invention, Worcestershire Sauce), the British dining table and larder has for too long been a grim repository of culinary malpractice.
Even the heroic efforts of George Orwell in his essay defending English cookery cannot completely rehabilitate the British menu.
Remember the old adage: In Hell, the English are the cooks and the Germans are the police. Perhaps we can learn something from them about that...
George Otterbury
Surbiton
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