英國的食物在江湖上的名聲似乎一般，尤其是隔著英吉利海峽的法蘭西常常對英國的食物冷嘲熱諷。《狂愛美食》一書的作者甚至還寫道“英國菜的標準就是淡而無味”。除了炸魚薯條Fish and chips之外似乎就沒有什么拿得上臺面的東西。果真如此嗎？事實上，權(quán)威美食雜志公布的“全世界50*餐廳”中，其中14間在英國，在這其中11間又在倫敦。世界各地的風味餐云集倫敦，比一場華麗的時裝秀更熱鬧。那么，英國菜式英文介紹是怎么寫的呢? ?

? Get close to UK diet ? 走近英國菜 ? We eat the most ready meals in Europe. They are unhealthy and rarely taste as good as the alternative of cooking food fresh. People often complain that they are too busy to cook from scratch. However, more and more people are choosing to eat healthy, fresh food, inspired by celebrity chefs who are showing us that cooking does not have to be difficult, or even time-consuming. ? Yet Britain still has a bad reputation for cooking. The author of A Fondness for Food even wrote about “the bland, standard UK diet”. However, today the UK is one of the most exciting places for creative and talented chefs, we have some of the most renowned restaurants and some of the most famous international chefs run them with many different cultures and nationalities from all over the world meeting in the UK, some of the most exciting new flavors and ideas in cooking now come from London, not Paris (the traditional hot spot of European cuisine). ? The UK has become a nation of goodies, with increasingly sophisticated tastes and an appetite for world cuisines. Witness all the TV food programmes and cookery books, the celebrity status of many chefs, the popularity of farmers’ markets and regional food fairs, the trend in food related travel and the money we spend on doing up kitchens. ? The Fat Duck restaurant has been given the title of “Best Restaurant in the World”. It has a reputation for experimental cuisine, with ingredients such as leather, oak, tobacco, snails in porridge, and liquid nitrogen mousse. This new style of cuisine is called “molecular gastronomy”. In addition to the Fat Duck award, London has also been named “Gourmet Capital of the World”. ? 英國的烤牛肉久負盛名， 使用厚而嫩的上等牛里脊添加芥末烤成， 食用時還要搭配約克夏布丁蛋糕， 用來蘸吸肉湯； 而兩份蔬菜上面會澆上肉汁再呈上。林肯郡香腸通常是用豬肉和鼠尾草做的，鼠尾草是一種美味的香料。由于蘭克希爾郡火鍋這道菜燉的時間長，因而肉也變得細嫩多汁?？粗@些菜的描述，真讓人垂涎三尺，一掃淡而無味這個詞。英國菜到底好吃不好吃，有機會嘗試便知。 ?