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As a nation of voyeurs, we don’t cook but watch TV cookery programmes instead

The strange demise of British cookery

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

When I got married 50 years ago, my wife and I had somehow acquired a little cookery book called Cooking in Ten Minutes. We never quite managed to cook anything in so short a time, mainly, I think, because the book was a bit of a cheat: it seemed to expect you to have a saucepan full of boiling water and a whole lot of washed and prepared vegetables ready before the ten minutes began.

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