Editing George Orwell (section)

=== Food writing ===
In 1946, the [[British Council]] commissioned Orwell to write an essay on British food as part of a drive to promote British relations abroad.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|agency=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47155257|title=Orwell gets apology for rejected food essay|date=7 February 2019|access-date=7 February 2019|language=en-GB}}</ref> In his essay titled "British Cookery", Orwell described the British diet as "a simple, rather heavy, perhaps slightly barbarous diet" and where "hot drinks are acceptable at most hours of the day".<ref name=":0"/> He wrote that [[Tea in the United Kingdom|high tea in the United Kingdom]] consisted of a variety of savoury and sweet dishes, but "no tea would be considered a good one if it did not include at least one kind of cake", before adding "as well as cakes, [[Biscuit#Confectionery biscuits|biscuit]]s are much eaten at tea-time".<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{cite news |title=British Cookery |url=https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/british-cookery/ |access-date=20 August 2021 |work=Orwell Foundation}}</ref> Orwell included his own recipe for [[marmalade]], a popular British spread on toast.<ref name=":0"/> However, the British Council declined to publish the essay on the grounds that it was too problematic to write about food at the time of [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|strict rationing in the UK]] following the war. In 2019, the essay was discovered in the British Council's archives along with the rejection letter. The British Council issued an official apology to Orwell over the rejection of the commissioned essay, publishing the original essay along with the rejection letter.<ref name=":0" />