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 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 the 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 pudding or all sorts of smoked fish.