Brown Windsor soup Christie's Poirot, episode "Hercule Poirot's Christmas", Poirot laments to a waiter that the Brown Windsor Soup he has been served "doesn't look very... delicieux". In "Basil the Rat," the last episode of Fawlty Towers, the upper-class couple who have the rat under their table order a Windsor Soup as their starter. Notes Citations Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup is a British meat soup that is said by conventional wisdom to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, although well documented evidence for the soup does not exist until the 1920s and 30s. In any case, "Brown Windsor
Britain's Best Dish Britain's Best Dish Britain's Best Dish was a British daytime cookery show part of the ITV Food category on ITV and hosted by Mary Nightingale. Amateur cooks from around the UK compete to cook "Britain's Best Dish" and a prize of £10,000. The judges were Ed Baines, John Burton Race and Jilly Goolden. From October 2011, the competition was rebranded as simply "Best Dish" with new graphics and a new look studio. The programme aired weekdays at 5pm from 2007 until 2011. A book containing recipes from the series was published in 2009. In the regional heats, Monday to Thursday,