O Rare Roast Beef

O Rare Roast BeefIt must be a great satisfaction to Englishmen to realize that although they have gone unchallenged as the world's worst cooks, their roast beef has been the envy of gourmets everywhere. For centuries, the English cook, fully conscious that he couldn't tell sauce from 7-Up, has treated his mighty roast beef with a kind of affectionate humility, simply placing the plain ribs carefully on the fire -- unseasoned, ungarnished and unmolested. In this courtly kitchen gesture, the Engli...