Les cuisiniers anglais face à la cuisine française

Gilly Lehmann : English cooks and French cuisine. French food was fashionable in 18th-century England, and the aristocracy and their imitators demanded French dishes. English authors were therefore obliged to give French recipes, while their fear of losing their jobs to Frenchmen (plus traditional antipathy to things French) made them denounce French cooks and cuisine. This contradictory attitude led them to attack an imaginary French cuisine, moral values replacing culinary judgements. Meanwhile, they were accepting French dishes ; hostility disappears from English cookery books by 1770, to be replaced by approbation for frugal French eating habits. Thus, a new myth is being manufactured.Lehmann Gilly. Les cuisiniers anglais face à la cuisine française. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°15, 1983. Aliments et cuisine. pp. 75-90