We're drifting well away from the thread title by now, but I'm astonished that a presumably well read writer (whether you agree with him or not) would put dodgy English food in the 70s down to the Victorians. I would have thought that WW2 with its food rationing, that went on from 1939 until 1954; plus the virtual bankruptcy of the country as a result of the war might have had at least as significant an impact.
Or perhaps that just demonstrates why he has a Nobel prize, and I don't even have an Economics O Level!
