English food, not long ago the best in the world, is falling off in quality, and even our national genius for cooking shows a decline; to anyone who knows England, these are facts significant enough.

不久前还是世界上最好的英国食物的质量正在下降，甚至我们的民族烹饪天才也出现了衰退；对于任何了解英国的人来说，这些都是足够重要的事实。