by Simple fresh food, which is cooked from scratch, is as chic as it can. In a pantry of the upper crust, you will not find a quaver or an ultra-processed garbage-and forget to take away or some kind of snack. The Aristo diet would receive full grades from Tim Spector, Tim Spector, the van Tulleken Anti-Up Evangelist.
Just take a look at the Countess of Carnarvon, Chatelaine from Highclere Castle in Hampshire, who has not thought about it twice about adding a recipe for Shepherd’s cake to an upcoming book. The biggest misunderstanding about the food in the big houses of Britain, she says: “It is that it is picky and complicated if it is actually based on a simple house food”.
While the vulgar is rich and the credit cards you imitate, caviar can eat and post on Instagram, while the greatest comfort of the 8th earl is the roast chicken, and dinner on Monday evening is “risotto with everything in the fridge”.
While it has been a cook in my family, my family Nouveau Pauvre was very strict to keep some of the old food companies. No tomatoes in the refrigerator, don’t hold your knife like a pen, never use a silver spoon for eggs, margarine is evil, no snack, no fabric, no excess weight, never use a knife to break a bun. The rules for food and its consumption were considerable and I never forgot them. I still have a crippled shame when I eat on the street.
The beginning of the asparagus season was welcomed like the birth of a child – and the end like death in the family. To be honest, I am not sure whether my grandma ever really enjoyed cooking her own meal and living from cheese and cookies. When I spoke to other bourgeois girls with noble grannies, we found that we had a lot in common.
A former private cook of a member of the royal family described when the deceased queen came to noon, since he received instructions, a single portion “Goujons of Plaice, which are basically Noble Fischfinger, because no matter what everyone else had, really preferred. And apart from a few crispy old dukes, you don’t get much Posher than the queen, right?
What are the signs of a really noble diet and how can you benefit your health?
You never have a snack
A weekend guest in Lisnavagh, the seat of Lord Rathdonnell, describes the visceral disgust of her host on snacking: “He looked at it for a criminal offensive, completely gross and bitter.” Admittedly, snacking was not common in any class until recent generations of food companies were subjected to brainwashing. As a child, the whining that you were hungry was either ignored or with a quick use: “You can have a piece of fruit.”
And while we all chew in the cud all day like cattle today, it is not enough in the largest levels of society because there is a lack of simple lack of reluctance and self -control. And there is nothing to eat anyway. A regular visitor to the beautiful country houses says that the upper class refrigerators are uniquely not inspired. Fresh ingredients are kept in the foreground in order to be prepared from scratch, and “snack bits” are what Nancy Mitford would call “non-U” (not the upper class). “It is only dried, the cheese, sad, worrying bloody chicken carcada and tracklements -Enf.” In short, when you open your refrigerator and a cornucopia from exotic foods that are expelled in colorful plastic falcons, you are dead.
Rosemary Ferguson, the practitioner of the nutritionist and functional medicine, is a favorite of the intelligent set in London and the Cotswolds. She says: “Not snacking is a good thing. The body benefits from short fasting of around five hours between meals. So snacking is a really big problem, since the insulin levels are constantly increased and the body never takes a break from digestion.”
You love a protein game
In order to legally shoot things with faces, fur and feathers, you either have to own a lot of land, have a friend who has a lot of land or is ready to give someone a lot of money with a lot of land. Otherwise it poaches. Having a taste for the Gamier meat is a sign that you are pretty great. Arrivistes just shoots things and go to Annabel to get drunk.
Ferguson says: “The game is very healthy meat: rich in protein, low in fat, rich in B vitamins, vital minerals such as iron and omega-3s. It lives wildly and probably does not live stressed life with lots of strange food and medication such as breeding meat.”
You avoid Upfs like Bisto sauce or (horror) a big mac
While there are rumors that enjoy the Beckhams with their best beef from Bisto, roasting requires a few ribs only the addition of inventory in the empty pan to create a fairly thin but delicious Marme-Y fluid called Socy. A travel companion of one of the intelligent Sykes sisters – Plum, Lucy and Alice – describes an unnamed sister who prefers to go hungry for 24 hours, while he was waiting for a delayed flight at Goa Airport because the only option was McDonald’s and apparently couldn’t.
Ferguson says: “Cooking up and avoiding Upfs and Fast Food is a very good thing, but I’m afraid, I love bisto. I remember [a very aristocratic name] To be apparently horrified when they found that I did it. The real problem comes if you don’t have the choice. Diabetes and metabolic diseases are a socio -economic problem, since there are food deserts in poorer areas where UPFS and fast food are cheaper than real foods. So it is not a laughing matter. “
You prefer simple foods with high quality ingredients
While Pol Roger claimed that Winston Churchill drank 42,000 bottles of his champagne for over 50 years, his menus were far less great. “They contained many remains and beans on toast,” said the dining historian and biographer of Churchill’s Cook Dr. Annie Gray. “It is the same now as always,” she says of the preference of the senior crust for simple and not exciting food.
Ferguson says: “Holding simply means consistent habits; everything is too complicated is easy to derail. And if you eat high -quality ingredients, too much excitement is really not necessary.”
You eat strictly seasonal vegetables
It would never come to mind, to eat asparagus, artichokes or tomatoes or indeed something from the strict British season, and certainly not prepared in a crispy plastic package. Carried carrots should never be seen outside the kindergarten wing. The adults’ carrots should be served in batons or are left all in accordance with the Mancroft instructions by Annabel Bower and the etiquette commentator William Hanson. And some vegetables are completely forbidden. “Kale is for cattle” after my mother. She has never stopped saying that since I developed a fashionable appetite for the toughest Brassicas. No matter how much I open it, or massage it into tenderness, you won’t touch it. A member of the Mancroft family apparently sent a Swede dish back to Bower with the words: “They cannot serve. This is beef feed.”
Ferguson says: “Seasonal, locally and freshly picked or picked is the dream. As soon as they are picked, vegetables lose their nutritional value and their taste. If they are pulled out of organic floor, there are additional minerals and good bacteria. Carrots lose whole that cooks less from their nutrients and while some controversy and extreme wellness figures have tried to kill them”, ” Do you have to eat a lot before we could do it
They are not big on pudding, but love fresh fruit from the garden
Even every day directly from one of the dairy farms on their huge property are crumbles that are brought to the kitchen every day, are also acceptable. Ferguson says: “A stroke is not bad at all with the fruits, and especially if they add some seeds, nuts and oats. The addition of local and non-pasteurized cream (which was tested to food transferred by food) will add high-dose vitamin E, high A2 protein and fat levels to keep them full longer.”
You never eat eat before you try it
A girlfriend describes in horror when she recognized the man she loved, sprinkling the man over his meal before he even had a sip. “I was told that salt feed was very non-u and I like my food to this day. I was said that salt could sit on her plate in a small pile when it was necessary, but that it was a huge no-no one. sweat – We should all avoid salt. We all eat too much and it is a well-known and serious risk factor for cardiovascular, kidney and bone health. “
They only drink very weak tea (and never with sugar)
Tea taken with a slice or lemon or a milk droplet and should look like rinsing water, not like the thick orange color of a common house brick. Ferguson says: “This is probably more moisture than stronger tea, but as long as her tea is not full of sugar, nothing is wrong with a strong daily cup.
