The cracker aisle at the market is a special challenge. My sons are grown now and my grandchildren play the centimeter game and I still check the length of ingredients lists Rather than dealing with arbitrary decisions like, ‘No,” imposed by a tyrant, (me), the ingredients list was undeniable. This pronouncement was the beginning of a grocery store game for my sons when they were too young to ‘sound out” words like disodium inosinate or monoglycerides. When the ingredients list on the side of the box of any prepared food is longer than a centimeter I don’t buy it. We may still be divided by our common language,but hopefully with Carol’s recipes we can move a bit closer on the food front. Cakes and bakes feature strongly, food that make a kitchenwarm and a home even warmer.Ĭarol has translated most of her measurements into UK friendly ones for us and some of her descriptions too.
Her dishes are simple to make, family friendly, tasty and often inspired by food from nearby farms and markets. This shouldn’t put us off exploring the cuisine of a country that didn’t go multicultural overnight but which began that way with immigrants who came, and continue to come, from all over the world.Ĭarol Egbert paints and cooks in the Vermont village of Quechee and posts on her website She will be sending us a fresh recipe once a month. George Bernard Shaw famously said that the USA and UK are ‘two countries divided by a common language’, thus earning himself a permanent place on quiz show question lists on both sides of the Atlantic.įood and cooking is where perhaps we see it most and particularly in measurements.