Whats the best/worst thing about the British food scene?
SB: The best thing is how we manage to mix high-end and low-end cuisine so well. Our takeaways and our haute cuisine are both great. The worst is probably the guilt that people associate with food – we have such a small-minded, nasty attitude to eating. For example, I find that people will metaphorically smack their own wrists and then go and eat the ‘naughty’ choccy bar. It’s horrible. We think everyone should eat more and just enjoy themselves. What’s the next big thing? SB: Figurative food: food that’s in the shape of something else [B&P make jelly moulds that are scale models of famous buildings]. We’ve read about a food mountain in the 1800s that was almost life-size and had children dressed as raggedy shepherd boys coming out of caves within it and singing to people as they ate bits. We’d like to have a go at that and maybe float it down the Thames. There would be health and safety issues with using children in the food mountain, though. Anyway, it’s basically another way to enga
