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June 29, 2012
Britain uses Olympics to shed stodgy food image
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
Associated Press
LONDON — Boiled potatoes, stringy beef and overcooked vegetables. If that's your impression of British food, you're not alone.
The country hosting the Summer Olympics has an international image as a culinary wasteland, but with hundreds of thousands of tourists, athletes and journalists descending on London in less than a month, British chefs and tourism chiefs hope to change that dire reputation.
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