A few days ago Gordon Ramsay proposed making it illegal to serve food that was out of season. The video can be found on the BBC.
I am a great fan of Mr Ramsay, but I think jailing chefs for serving frozen peas may be a little bit extreme....
By coincidence,I found this passage in a cookbook yesterday....
My object in writing this book....[is to emphasize]...two aspects of cookery which are increasingly disregarded: the suitability of certain foods to certain times of year, and the pleasure of eating vegetables, fruits, poultry, meat or fish which is in season, therefore at its best, most plentiful and cheapest.
The writer was Elizabeth David, the book Summer Cooking.
The book was first published 53 years ago, way before Gordon Ramsay was even born.
Some things never change in the world of food, it seems...
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