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Article: Food: The perfect couple Continuing his `careful cooking' theme, Simon Hopkinson extols the virtues of a classic combination of smoked haddock and eggs
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2000
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Good cookery - and I might suggest that what with so many bizarre
combinations now so commonplace under that increasingly spurious
moniker "Modern British Cooking", that simplistic description should
be shifted up a notch to excellent - demands that ingredients be at
the very least, sympathetic to each other. And if it is to be
anything at all British per se, the sublime marriage of smoked
haddock with egg is, possibly, one of the most genial of gastronomic
nuptials.
At its most sublimely convenient - yet I worry how many actually
bother to approach such a simple task - the lazy, late-Saturday
breakfast of a fillet of smoked haddock poached in milk with a
wobbling poached egg atop its ...