The two features of life in England that possibly give visitors the worst impressions are the English weather and English cooking. 1 former is a natural phenomenon that nobody can do anything about. But cooking is something that can be learned. English food has often been described as 2 (taste). Recently, the situation has changed somewhat because many people have been spending their holidays abroad and 3 (learn) to appreciate unfamiliar dishes. One of the traditional complaints about English food is the way that vegetables 4 (cook). The only way that many British 5 (housewife) know to cook green vegetables is 6 (boil) them for too long and then to throw the water away so that all the vitamins are lost. To make matters 7 (bad), they do not strain the vegetables sufficiently so that 8 appear as a wet mass on the plate. However, it would be unfair to say that all English food is bad. Indeed not only the raw ingredients are usually 9 high quality, especially the meat and fish, 10 many traditional British dishes are as good as anything you can get anywhere. A visitor who is invited to an English home may well enjoy steak and kidney ( 鹅肝 ) pudding or all sorts of smoked fish.