my parents divorced so my dad brought in an English nanny to take care of us while he worked. We knew firsthand the difference between cottage and shepherd’s pie since we loved cottage and couldn’t stand shepherd’s. I’ve never had a better cottage pie than the one’s she used to bake.
not to restart the debate, but if you’re sitting in a nyc restaurant and it says “chow mein” on the menu , how else would you communicate your order to the waiter? In any case, in nyc I avoid the issue by never ordering chow mein because, in my view, it’s completely inedible.
