Food - so often highly anticipated and so often a little bit... disappointing. Rachel Cooke asks why.
Rachel Cooke reveals which food she considers to be the most disappointing. And in this essay she also recalls her extraordinary trip to a legendary Spanish restaurant; the taste of her grandmother's cakes, never to be re-created and asks why so few eagerly anticipated meals and treats live up to our high expectations.
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