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Food, Glorious Food!
Food, glorious food! Eating local ... is an important part of any trip abroad. Sampling a country’s ... can help you understand its culture, its ... and its people. However, when you are abroad for a prolonged period of time, it is understandable that you might start to miss the cuisine that you have grown up with and that reminds you of home.
Currently, I am living in Canada and am very lucky because I love a lot of the ... food here, especially as some of it is ... to food in the UK. It is quite easy to find food such as ... beans, shepherd’s pie \(called pâté chinois in Quebec\), meat pie \(tourtière\) and fish and chips, which are all British staples but were not very ... when I lived in France, for instance! Yet it can never be quite the same. For example, the fish and chips here are not as ... as at home. Of course, this is a good thing for my ... , but not for my cravings! Also, ... peas and vinegar are not a main ... of the fish and chip supper in Quebec; once when I ordered the dish in a restaurant, it even came with ... and rice!