Admit it: the English love affair with European food has grown stale – we need a native cuisine we can be proud of | Lewis Bassett

It’s boring to see aioli, burrata and fresh pasta on menus everywhere. Especially when we have salad cream, custard tarts and stuffed chine No discerning dinner party host in England would dream of serving their guests a traditional English ham. You might find jamón ibérico , of which Spain is so proud, but never stuffed chine , a shoulder cut of salted pork marbled with parsley, once a delicacy in Lincolnshire. It sometimes seems as if the English middle classes are so concerned with other c