A lot of you still cooking like the Germans are still flying over your heads NGL

Of course it does. I grew up in the UK and it's fun taking jabs but then you have a bunch of people who just keep doubling down as if they're God's gift to the kitchen.

My favourite take of theirs is always what they exclude from English food but they'll talk about American food and include everybody else's cuisine ...

It may not be as nuanced, but it's pretty damn good.

Maybe...

What I don't understand is how they can be on an island, surrounded by some of the best fish in the world (including the fantastic Scottish salmon) and the only piece of fish you can find in the whole country is freaking cod with four layers of batter applied to it and fried until the only flavor you can perceive is that of mediocre burnt oil.

They make good meat dishes (roasts, meat pies), but then they pair them with the most uninspiring sides... The UK cuisine has a few good things, and they have good ingredients, but more often than not they cook them in boring ways and stop there, calling it "good enough"

Yeah, you all definitely have... 8 or maybe 9 edible things that aren't beer or curry.

All the same, I'd rather have a full English breakfast than 90% of French food and 98% of German food. Kidneys in cream, or raw pork crackers, or bread and cheese like they invented it or whatever.

His famous grilled cheese.

He's Scottish though, not English

Isn’t tomato native to the Americas?

It's a reference to Alberto Grandi and his theses about the origins of many popular Italian dishes that are perceived as "traditional" but did not become mainstream until after WWII (and that Italian cuisine before that was much more regional and less homogeneous).

I think there's something to those arguments, but it is worth noting that he's not really a "food historian" as he's often described but a professor of economics and management.

Ahkshually, cultures all over the world have eaten crustaceans for millennia!

(I made up that fact for the sake of the punch line, no idea if accurate)

The Etruscans, famously known for their tomato sauce.

"Food made by people living on what is now the Italian peninsula" is not a synonym for "Italian food."

This is another one of those times where I can’t tell if this is British humour or British documentary.

The best German dishes are Döner, Spaghetti and Lasagne.

-Me, in the kitchen

correction:

-Me, in MY kitchen

I tell people to "get out of my kitchen" all the time. I keep it neat, I keep it functional, don't leave your dirty dish there you heathen, get out!

Guest cooks are welcome, at which point I will get out of their way too, but when I'm head chef, I'm the LAW.