Foreign visitors to England often ask people for 1 for a good restaurant, but when their hosts suggest 2 , it is usually Italian or French or Indian — in short, anything 3 "But I mean a 4 English restaurant," they say so as not to disappoint them. The truth is that English people 5 their own cooking at home, but they are ashamed 6 it in public. Even the experts who write articles on food 7 to use the French word "cuisine", which suggests that "cooking" is 8 . In fact, English cooking is not nearly so 9 as people think. The trouble with it, in my opinion, is that the most appetizing typical dishes do not go with wine. At home, English people usually drink either water 10 beer or even tea with their 11 ; in restaurants they sometimes think they had 12 order wine for the 13 of appearance. At 14 a number of exclusive restaurants in Britain are 15 to develop a "national cuisine", But their main criterion in doing so appears to search 16 recipes in ancient cookery books and give the result names like "Mutton Winchester" — it is amazing how snobbery survives in the imitation of the French name, with the adjective after the noun. Why couldn"t have called it "Winchester Mutton" Nevertheless, there are restaurants in London 17 you can have regional working-class specialties. Personally I would rather 18 the two extremes and go to a pub. Most pubs 19 food that goes well with beer and, English beer being what it is, who could ask 20 anything better