From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
‘You know why the French called boiled potatoes à l’anglaise? Because they think boiling things is boring, XXXXXXXX, just like all of English cooking is deathly boring—’
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Character name redacted to avoid potential spoiler. R. F. Kuang shows repeatedly that she's not a fan of English food.