The spread of Methodism in Yemen

Food critic AA Gill on The Times reaches for a handy metaphore when bemoaning the lack of creativity in the British restuarant kitchen:

In Britain, all the really innovative food is made in cities. Well, one city. London. And chefs have had to beg and bribe, plead and perform, to get the peasantry to produce raw ingredients that haven’t had their beaks cut off or been chemically peeled. The evangelical conversion to modern British food has barely made it across the M25. It’s like the spread of Methodism in Yemen.