The essay, entitled "British Cookery," was a defense of what Orwell described as the “slightly barbarous” diet of the English.
Orwell’s 1946 submission was rejected by members of the British Council who were anxious about publishing the essay during a time of rationing after the Second World War. The editor’s notes said the great writer’s recipe for orange marmalade contained “too much sugar and water.”
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