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From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 20 Sep 2006 14:55 Giovanni Drogo <drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Miss L. Toe wrote: > > > > I am sorry to say that I rank UK as the worst for bread. > > > > The ciabatta that sainsburys sell is great ! > > Thank you for not quoting my entire message as some other posters did. > > There were no ciabatte in the UK nor in Italy 20 years ago when I lived > there. Ciabatta, like tartaruga, is one of the new "fashion" sorts of > bread introduced recently. The bread available has changed a lot in much of the UK in the last decade or so. I still wouldn't put it at the top of any list, but you can get good bread even in the big supermarkets. Not all of it is good, but I don't think it takes too much time to find it. 20 years ago, the only bread available where I lived was sliced white or sliced brown... As for restaurants, the ones that give you bread here tend to be similar in quality to what I'm used to in Europe- that is "OK" but not as good as what you can get if you look around. I was at a tapas place a while back which had excellent bread- next time I was there it was quite plain! :( -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org
From: Miss L. Toe on 20 Sep 2006 15:50 > As for restaurants, the ones that give you bread here tend to be similar > in quality to what I'm used to in Europe- that is "OK" but not as good > as what you can get if you look around. I was at a tapas place a while > back which had excellent bread- next time I was there it was quite > plain! :( You should try the foccicia at carluccios. Yummy.
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 20 Sep 2006 15:52 Miss L. Toe <missltoemissltoe(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > As for restaurants, the ones that give you bread here tend to be similar > > in quality to what I'm used to in Europe- that is "OK" but not as good > > as what you can get if you look around. I was at a tapas place a while > > back which had excellent bread- next time I was there it was quite > > plain! :( > > You should try the foccicia at carluccios. Yummy. Good suggestion- I don't think I've had it there. Had a delicious lunch in the location near Bond Street tube a while back. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 20 Sep 2006 17:12 Martin <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:55:02 +0100, > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of > the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > > >Giovanni Drogo <drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Miss L. Toe wrote: > >> > >> > > I am sorry to say that I rank UK as the worst for bread. > >> > > >> > The ciabatta that sainsburys sell is great ! > >> > >> Thank you for not quoting my entire message as some other posters did. > >> > >> There were no ciabatte in the UK nor in Italy 20 years ago when I lived > >> there. Ciabatta, like tartaruga, is one of the new "fashion" sorts of > >> bread introduced recently. > > > >The bread available has changed a lot in much of the UK in the last > >decade or so. > > Thanks to the introduction of sell by dates. :-) Maybe- you can by terrible 'fresh' bread though. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 20 Sep 2006 17:20
Martin <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:12:51 +0100, > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of > the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > > >Martin <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:55:02 +0100, > >> this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of > >> the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > >> > >> >Giovanni Drogo <drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote: > >> > > >> >> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Miss L. Toe wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > > I am sorry to say that I rank UK as the worst for bread. > >> >> > > >> >> > The ciabatta that sainsburys sell is great ! > >> >> > >> >> Thank you for not quoting my entire message as some other posters did. > >> >> > >> >> There were no ciabatte in the UK nor in Italy 20 years ago when I lived > >> >> there. Ciabatta, like tartaruga, is one of the new "fashion" sorts of > >> >> bread introduced recently. > >> > > >> >The bread available has changed a lot in much of the UK in the last > >> >decade or so. > >> > >> Thanks to the introduction of sell by dates. :-) > > > >Maybe- you can by terrible 'fresh' bread though. > > Maybe you can, we make our own. I save my time and spend a bit more on good stuff, but it's hard to beat home-made, I agree. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org |