Carmen: The Chinese introduced oriental food to Britain. But before the Chinese, immigrants from all around the world came to live in London.
British people enjoy a huge range of food and flavours from other countries.
This is Borough Market, London’s oldest food market. Today, you can find food here from all over the world.
This is Italian cheese. Each group of settlers brought their own food and styles of cooking and people here embraced the exciting new flavours… maybe because British food wasn’t very good.
Restaurants from all around the world can be found on most British high streets. Indian, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Persian... the list goes on.
But just what are the UK’s favourite dishes?
On the Street: My favourite meal is Thai green curry.
On the Street: One of my favourite meals is... cottage pie with peas.
On the Street: My favourite food is... Chinese ... Chinese.
On the Street: What’s my favourite meal? Still full English breakfast.
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Chef: This is a full English breakfast. Tomato, black pudding, sausage, bacon, egg, mushroom.
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Carmen: A big fried breakfast might not be to everyone’s taste. But in Britain, there is something for everyone.
Celia Brooks Brown is a food writer and knows all about food and the future of food in the UK, today.
Mmm! It looks good. What have we got here, Celia?
Celia: Well, this is a British tomato salad with a Yorkshire-made sheep’s cheese. And here we have a Barnsley lamb chop with new potatoes and a mint hollandaise sauce.
Carmen: So is this a sign of developments in British cooking?
Celia: Yes, people want to know where their food comes from. Chefs in restaurants like these are reinventing classic British dishes. They’re using ingredients that are locally sourced and locally grown.
Carmen: So what about world cuisine?
Celia: Well, anything goes. Chefs love to experiment with ingredients from different cultures. And we live in a globalised society, it’s very exciting.
Carmen: OK, Celia, if you were cooking these dishes at home, what ingredients from different cultures would you use?
Celia: Well, I might use something like this. This is a Moroccan spice mix called Ras el Hanout. Have a sniff.
Carmen: Hmm. That’s really strong.
Celia: Lovely, isn’t it? Now, this might make a lovely spice rub for that lamb chop.
Carmen: I can’t wait to taste this.
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Carmen: The food in Britain reflects the many different cultures here. But some of the old favourites are here to stay. I’m off for my favourite, fish and chips. Want a chip?
Comments
great ! I don't know much about food in England. But after watching the video, I found it really interesting, very, very interesting, very delicious food. I hope to enjoy the food in England.
I really like this video, it make me hungry and my wish now is to eat, eat and eat
WOWW the video makes me feel very hungry. Before, i don' t think the food in england is so diverse, but after watching this clip, i' m really amazed by the diversity of the food in britain, but wait hmmmm....... i don' t see the vietnamese food in the clip, it' s a shame that vietnamese cuisine is really delicious and fascinating but it' s okay because may be in the future i' m going to open a vietnamese food store in this culinary market =))))))
We know that each person all has a different tasty.With food in Britain,we will not feel boring because here has a lot of tyles of food from all over the world.If you want to change your tasty you dont need think a lot.With different cuture food here,we will enjoy everything perfect and delicious.And i hope i can come Britain to taste food at here.But i wonder that food in Britain are expensive,arent they?
Hi everyone ! I'm from Vietnam and I am quite fat haha. Because I am voracious, sometimes I also envy with my younger sister's meal. So when I watch this video, I feel hungry and want to enjoy these foods immediately. I see that some chefs seem to be professional !
The food in England has many characteristics of Eastern Countries. It's an interesting place to explore food from different countries and learn a lot from them. Therefore, I love food in Britain
Your video is so wonderful! I really like it! I haven't eaten British food yet but thanks for this video, I found that the cuisine here is extremely diverse with each dish bearing a unique feature of a cultural region. It also looks very delicious and fantastic. I hope that if I have a chance to go there, i will directly enjoy the taste of those dishes.
Hi guys, I'm from Viet Nam, so I'm learning about your culture and cuisine so that I can easily study and understand the culinary culture.
Your and my culinary culture is different a lot. I think my cuisine is more simple than your cuisine but i feel british food is very tasty and fantastic. British food looks very delicious and has got many different types of food.
I will learn more and one day I would like to introduce my country's culinary culture.
Britain - mix of the culture from different countries and food is not an exception! So in Britain you can taste food of countries which are not well-known (but also very delicious).
If you want to taste meals from other countries, you must to visit Britain
I like Turkish food.Beacuse its very tasty. TRTRTR
yummy! That British food is fantastic.
interesting video.
What about Vietnamese food hmmm?
I think British food is fantastic and delicious
I never tasted British food but those food seems like delicious,
I really like Word on the street
I've never tasted English food, so I don't know how it tastes..I would like to eat some typical Englsh dishes one day.. but now, I keep prefering Italian food, such as pizza and pasta...
As I understood, modern British cuisin contains food from different coutries.Of course, the British still have their original dishes, but they (the dishes) should have changed a lot under the influence of cooking traditions of the UK settlers. As for me, I'm interested in tastying pure British food. Famous British pudding, for example. (Yes, I'm quite a sweet tooth ^^)
For me Turkish meals are the best and anything cannot more delicious
If I can go to Britain. I will taste it :)
I think that food is very delicious!! :)
Hmm... I like that!
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I think that it is delicious, because I have tasted fish and chips, and I really liked it.
I never tasted Britain food.On the video, it seem fantastic, yummy and good but my older sister often says it terrible, it has all fish and chips, she don't want to taste it anymore but she has to because..... she is in british! :D
I think Britain food is very delicious. But I prefer Italy food, pizzas and pasta. I like USA food, too!
Hello. I think British food looks very delicious and has got many different types of food. But I prefer argentina food, especially meat. I really like it.
I think British food is VERY DELICIOUS AND GREAT!! I need taste all this food!!! I am from Argentina, our traditional dish are the grill meat, locro and empanadas!!
I'm from Argentina.
I think British food is very good.
I think British food is fantastic, looks very delicious.
I think British food is interesting and rich
Rich? did you mean tasty or delicious?
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