Newspaper keeps the heat in and makes eating outdoors easier. It’s also very cheap packaging. However, it was made illegal in the 1980s when the government became concerned about ink.
The Sunday Roast (or joint)
Aberdeen Angus and Herefordshire Bulls
Roast potatoes
Carrots and peas (the veg)
Yorkshire pudding
Gravy
How do you cook a Sunday roast?
Cornflakes was invented in the 1930s
Does every Briton eat the full English breakfast every day? 1960 = 50% 2012 = 1%
Quick and light breakfast alternatives
Marco Pierre-White
How does cooking in Britain differ from China?
Feudal origins of Sunday Roast
Serfs
Roasted or baked?
What role did the Turnspit dog play in Sunday roast?
Fried bread Baked beans Sausage
Tomatoes
Fried egg
Bacon was eaten in Britain from 1100
In the 1580s tomatoes were imported from Mexico
Sliced bread was invented in 1928
Do you know any traditional foods from around Britain?
Laver Bread
Haggis
Leak Soup
Porridge
Bakewell Tart Lancashire Hot Pot
Cornish Pasty
Dorset Apple Cake
In 1860 Jewish immigrant Joseph Malin combined fish with chips and opened the first fish and chip shop in London
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In 1863 John Lees started selling fish and chips from a wooden hut in Mosley market, Lancashire
Rhubarb Crumble
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Cheddar Cheese
Jellied Eels
Wensleydale cheese
Dundee cake
Tottenham cake
Chelsea buns
Despite regional variations, most countries have their classic dishes. When we think of them it brings the national culture to our mind in some way.
25% of British potatoes become chips – that's around 1.25 million tonnes every year. 25% of the fish caught around Britain are used for fried fish.
Cod = 61%
What are Britain’s 3 traditional dishes?
The 3 classics of British food: Sunday Roast English Breakfast Fish and Chips
Sunday Roast
What are the traditional foods served at Sunday lunch?
Can you name the typical ingredients for the full English breakfast?
Grapefruit
Cornflakes
English breakfast
Toast and marmalade
Bacon
Mushrooms
Black pudding
Haddock = 25%
Plaice = 9%
Chip butties (sandwich made of chips)
Fish and Chips in World War II
During the 12 years of wartime rationing from 1940-1952, fish and chips were not included. Potatoes were still easy to find and fish and chips was considered crucial to the morale of the nation.
Fish and Chip shops reached a peek popularity in the 1930s at around 35,000 but now there about 11,000.
35,000 fish and chips shops (1930s)
In The Road To Wigan Pier (1936), George Orwell argued that fish and chips was working class comfort food
Croissant
Weetabix
Muffin or Cupcake
Boiled Egg
Famous breakfast idioms
A dog’s breakfast?
Fish and chips
Today British people often enjoy fish and chips in nice restaurants but it wasn’t always this way
During the Depression of the 1930s it prevented revolution from breaking out in England
Fish and chips is a national favourite 130 million servings are sold each year, which is 6 per person.
What country do these classic foods come from?
What country do these classic foods come from?
What country do these classic foods come from?
If I asked you what the 3 classic Chinese dishes were, what would you say?
British Food
Topics today
• • • • • • Regional foods from around Britain The 3 classic dishes The diversity of ethnic cuisine The impact of social change on eating habits Snacks and obesity Return to home cooking
The government allowed fishermen to charge higher prices.
Without higher prices they would not risk blockade by German submarines.
However, the price rose 17 x and long queues formed at fish shops.
"And then to breakfast, with what appetite you have." William Shakespeare
‘’To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.’’ W. Somerset Maugham What do these quotes tell us about the English breakfast?
Fish and Fritz in Weymouth, Dorset
Fish and Chips was not always served in restaurants
The chip van was popular across the country in the 1930s
Working class food from the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th Century
Working class meals were generally bland
Even in 1990 fish and chips is still the most popular working class fast food