Blancmange was (is?) a popular dessert in the UK as well. It was available as a powdered dessert mix (like Jell-o pudding) made by the Birds company and imported here. My mother used to use it as a layer in a British trifle. It...

i LOVED in the Gin challenge when the British guy said “you're tall”. CJ should be my chef at home. I have a gas stove/oven and plenty of room for a tall person

Yes, I agree. I don’t really know what the Anglo-Saxon (British are guilty of this too) obsession with chicken is really as most of the meat is pretty bland and in my opinion too dry to enjoy. My mother always used to say...

seven times in their 200 year history. We’ll show you where pirates laid seige to the city, and then the British, and then the Yankees, and when soldiers weren’t beating at the gates, hurricanes, earthquakes, and...

middles, and thick, soft British “chips” equally well in different meals. There are even times when fries that would be bad on their own make an essential contribution to a tasty rustic dish (e.g. poutine,...

I worked in formal dining and we didn’t serve the women their food first! You start with the oldest female at the table; however, and then you move around the table from there. Does anyone else know of this convention?...

an British view http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-eig1.htm

, Miller, and Coors were a step UP! Then came beers like Heineken, Beck’s, Corona . . . then the more “serious” European pilners, British ales and Belgian trappists and lambics. (This pattern changed slightly...

, ever turn your nose up at a nice South Phillly lasagne again! Oh and baked ziti is even worse. I know a woman (forgive her, she’s British) who makes baked ziti with macaroni, Prego, cottage cheese, green can Parmesan, and...

more keen on the whole idea than the Brits, so every time we went over there were a lot more French families who wanted to host than there were British families. So we would be “shared” out among the community. Which...

tradition. There is a certain warmth and clubbiness to the best sushi bars that corresponds roughly to the homey feel of British pubs or Mediterranean cafes. Aside from the quality of the fish, perhaps the one sure sign...

I’d say enough of the French-bashing. When the Brits (Restaurant Magazine) pick the 50 best restaurants in the world, they stiff the French. The Italians probably stiff both the French and the British. Americans would tend...

Yes, but the restaurants aren’t. I had in mind places like The Chip Shop and A Salt and Battery in NYC, which routinely get labeled “English.” (I guess they’re more properly "British," as you suggest.)...

because of its fairly unique confluence of different cultures, including of course, British. I was under the impression that sticky aka glutinous rice as the staple was traditional for Cambodians too, as well as Thais generally,...

'll find a changing table in the restroom. Telephone Bar & Grill 145 Second Avenue between Ninth and 10th Streets (212) 529-5000 Kids will love the red British phone booths lining the outside of this restaurant and they can sit...