Duchess Of Cornwall's Food Speech
Published: 04/24/2010 by femalefirst
The duchess - who was supporting the launch of British Food Fortnight in London yesterday (22.04.10) - claimed that simple, organic food was better than the mass-produced products made by giant food conglomerates.
She said: "I have always loved food and really enjoy cooking simple dishes with the best British ingredients. That, for me, is what British food is really about: a chicken that has lived a natural life, pecking and scratching about in the yard, roasted until golden brown.
British food has been woefully under-rated for years, seen, wrongly, as some sort of international culinary joke. Dull, turgid and over-boiled, they grin, across the globe. Utter rubbish, I say.
"Or a spanking fresh mackerel, grilled until the skin is crisp. The first British asparagus just shooting up now. Or a proper Somerset Cheddar, made with unpasteurised milk from the farmer's own herd. Food that follows the seasons, rather than the whims of some vast multinational food conglomerates."
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