Spaghetti Whiplash: On the Menu
The post-lockdown era has seen the abolition of menus. Pubs and restaurants have found it convenient to offload some of the work onto customers. Jim Heimann's book is aimed at the non-expert browser. He writes about the history of fine dining in Europe. He doesn't pay much attention to national cuisines within Europe, except for France. French was the international language of food for centuries. It's used in many European countries, but not in Britain. English is used to convey a sense of inferiority. When a French menu uses English it feels like an implicit snub.
