Thursday, 15 March 2007  Ravishingly Rare  I don't know if the
Welsh can actually lay claim to the delightful snack they call
Welsh Rarebit, and I invite response as it seem like a typical
pub question, but one thing I am sure about is that I love it. I
can remember as a lad at school during home economics being
shown how to make a rarebit, and it has stayed with me ever
since as a thing of utter beauty. Yes, anybody that knows me
will know that it is the simple things in life that get me
going. Not that it takes much on the subject of food to get me
enthusiastic.  Like most classics, it will have it's variations
from town to town. Whether or not the towns in Wales that lay
claim to have invented the dish, have pitched battles over the
subtleties of how it is made, I really do not know or care.
After all, if you have a bouillabaisse in one town in France you
can just about place your house as a bet that it will taste
different in the next. That is what is so brilliant about being
obsessed with food, that abil