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“The eighteenth century saw an enormous British backlash against French cooking and its associations with anything perceived as vaguely cosmopolitan, corrupt or urban. In a century in which Britain was regularly at war with France, some Brits sought solace in a strange form of beefy, patriotic nostalgia, setting up ‘beefsteak clubs’, painting pictures and singing songs about good old British beef.”