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[randomness]

Today is both St. David's Day and National Pig Day. I wonder if there's a Welsh Pork dish that would celebrate both at the same time?

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[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was this: http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/stir-fried-pork-with-leeks

It looks familiar, and I have a taste memory of a dish like that.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

It's pretty amazing, given how intrinsically good stir-fried pork and leeks would be, that it's almost certain that the Welsh never made it. Now boiled pork with leeks is a strong possibility...

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Stir-frying, I'm told, is a response to cooking fuel scarcity. Wales (and the British Isles in general) are full of peat, which has been used since prehistoric times as fuel for cooking and heating. So my understanding is that they never had to develop stir-frying.

Thus the prevalence of boiling in British cooking. Toss it in a pot, put it over a fire, wait for a few hours (or days). Call it food. :)

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Call it food. :)

How true! My mother visited London and said that the food was quite good. Then she recalled that they'd always eaten in Indian restaurants. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I should be fair. They also learned how to bake things using all that cooking fuel. There are some excellent baked goods that come out of the British Isles.

The other point in favor of cuisine from that part of the world is breakfast. Somerset Maugham is quoted as saying, "To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day."

He's right. A full cooked breakfast is a cholesterol special, but boy they're tasty. And they'll keep you going until mid-afternoon.