George Orwell’s essay In Defence of English Cooking was written in 1945 and published in the *Evening Standard*. In it, Orwell challenges the stereotype that English food is bland or inferior, arguing instead that traditional English cuisine has a distinctive quality rooted in honesty, simplicity, and comfort - wikipedia 
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Around the same period, in 1945 or early 1946, while living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote another article on “British Cookery” for the British Council. It included recipes and a spirited defence of national dishes, but due to post-war food shortages, both Orwell and the Council agreed that publishing it would be inappropriate.
The essay remained unpublished at the time. During this period, Orwell was already suffering from tuberculosis, which caused a haemorrhage in February 1946 — a condition he largely kept hidden from public view.