By Hira Qureshi
From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Ben Mervis doesn’t hesitate to say British food is the cuisine of his dreams. For the Philly native, the fare presents comfort meals made from wild foods of the island nation, rich in histories of migration, innovation and preservation.
For Mervis, the founder of Fare Magazine and lead researcher for Netflix’s “Chef’s Table,” his time as an impressionable international student in the United Kingdom sparked a quest to chronicle the nation’s food culture — one that led him to savor sausage rolls with English mustard in a “ritual-like calm” and eat his weight in fresh fish and langoustines….