While there are plenty of great opportunities to eat well and find great food in London, there's still a significant difference between eating in France versus England. Sure I know plenty of good cooks from over there but quality drops off very, very quickly compared to what you find throughout France. You can almost always find good food anywhere if you try hard enough. What makes France (or Italy) so great is that you find high quality not only in the big cities, but you often find even higher quality in the countryside. From my own experience, that's much harder to find when you travel outside of London though surely there are some fine examples.
It's wonderful to see a more serious food culture developing in the UK but keep things in perspective folks.
The survey, carried out by the French magazine Madame Le Figaro and the BBC's food magazine Olive, has produced an agony of French soul-searching – and a certain amount of disbelief – over the apparent erosion of the country's most celebrated heritage.
More than 2,000 French people and nearly 1,350 Britons were asked about their eating and cooking habits. Their answers revealed that 72% of the British cook at home daily, compared with 59% of the French. One British cook in two spends more than 30 minutes preparing a meal while only a quarter of the French spend that long.
Four per cent of the French polled admitted they never cook, four times as many as Britons questioned. While French and British cooks are just as likely to bake a cake or fillet a fish, nearly twice as many British people as French make their own bread.
