When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.
My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
Anything that has more buttercream than it does cake is going to be a no-no for me.
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
Chocolate cake is the bomb!
At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.
I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.