Publisher's Synopsis
Well-known traditional British dishes include full breakfast, fish and chips, the Christmas dinner, the Sunday roast, steak, and kidney pie, shepherd's pie, and bangers and mash. People in Britain, however, eat a wide variety of foods based on the cuisines of Europe, India, and other parts of the world.
But the history tells a different story of British Isles cuisine.
British food has had a poor reputation for generations, it's heavy, tasteless, and uninspired, or at least so we are led to believe. Over the past thirty years or so British chefs have come into their own and now food in England's best hotels and restaurants rivals that of any place in the world. History is less kind to the English table. For those that don't know; England is the island while the British Isles is the group of islands, mainly England and Ireland but with over 6000 smaller islands, the United Kingdom at one time covered the globe.
With modern communications and transportation, the idiosyncrasies of local cuisine are beginning to disappear to the detriment of us all. It is not just cuisines that are disappearing; it is little bits of history. During and after WWII travel and foreign exchanges were severely curtailed in England so that there was renewed reliance on local foods.
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