Peas, Please?

THEY are Britain’s most divisive vegetable, after Brussels sprouts. And broccolli. And gherkins. They’re PEAS, and normal people either love them or hate them. And celebrities are no different. We phoned four well-known names to see if they were a peasophile, or a peasophobe. Melvyn Bragg, bunged-up peer “I DON’T like peas at all, but I recognise they have a place on Britain’s plates, performing their role, as they do, as a backdrop to the meat and potato stars of the dinner production. They are the spear carriers of a meal – they perform little function, but without them it is a lesser production. Just as a performance of Henry IV Part One at the Globe with no incidental characters would be dull and uninspiring, so too, a dinner of…

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