Fast food beats Czech dumpling

For the fourth time running the Czechs have selected the best dumpling cook in the country. Such competitions are necessary because the taste buds of the Czech nation are under siege from fast food and convenience products, writes the German-language weekly Prager Zeitung: "The only thing the tasty morsels called dumplings have in common with what most restaurants dish up in their place is the name. Often chefs resort to the industrially manufactured products that you can pick up at any supermarket. Hardly a single cook still goes to the trouble today of preparing this traditional dish themselves. ... After the Velvet Revolution in 1989 Czechs were inundated with junk food. Nowadays you can find almost any dish you want in the food-floor freezers. Artificial colouring, enhanced flavouring and chemicals galore have wreaked havoc on the Czechs' taste buds, causing them to prefer convenience products over the original. But there's no getting around it, there's nothing tastier or healthier than home cooked food."

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