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More people should read Orwell's essays--not just "Politics and the English Language" but his essays from his "As I Please" articles on English life and like this essay here on "British Cookery.": https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/british-cookery/
It's a charming little snapshot of English life during WW II and makes the British style of cooking roast beef and game appear quite appetizing. A sample quotation:
"No one who has not sampled Devonshire cream, stilton cheese, crumpets, potato cakes, saffron buns, Dublin prawns, apple dumplings, pickled walnuts, steak-and-kidney pudding and, of course, roast sirloin of beef with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and horseradish sauce, can be said to have given British cookery a fair trial."
I feel that we have similar problems between the English and the Americans. We don't really see each other's actual cuisine. We just see each other's common foods.