Edibles & Potables: Pie & mash with jellied eel? Don’t mention the “G” word
With advancing age has come a graceful acceptance of my latent Anglophilia. Much of this serenity owes to the creeping realization that proficiency in any of the continental languages is unlikely; consequently, a thwarted expatriate’s aspirations might as well be confined to areas where the Mother Tongue is spoken.
There but for chronic linguistic underachievement, I might have been a Czech, German or Belgian. Perhaps in my next life.
Yesterday (Saturday 25 January) Manze’s pie-and-mash shop on Deptford High Street in southeast London closed permanently. As The Economist observes, the capital’s pie-and-mash shops ......Read more