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
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?
Hi Brenda15 and HipsterPizza! You might already know this, but the word 'rich' when you are talking about food has quite a specific meaning in English. It doesn't exactly mean tasty or delicious, and it's not about how much it costs either. Rich food is food that is heavy, filling and calorific, and it is usually quite unhealthy and contains lots of fat or sugar. Here are some examples of rich food:
Do you like any of these rich foods?
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Thanks for that explanation. At first I thought "rich" meant expensive!
Rich food seems tasty, but that's not my thing, too heavy for me to digest. I'm Asian.
Hi Lavender. I know what you mean. These days I don't often have rich food but the exception is at Christmas, when we have things like Christmas pudding and mince pies which are very rich indeed. :)
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I like it! I thinks British food is delicius and interesting, because there are food all over the word. But prefer Argentina i think is more healthy. Mi favorite food is pizza!
I think British food is very interesting I wanna eat British food, but I prefer Mediterranean's food nice video I really enjoy it :D
I think that british food is fantastic, because I prefer argentina food.
I think british food is very tasty. Rare for argentina.
I think that British food is fantastic and very varied! I really want to taste it.
I think that Britain food is fantastic because there are a large variety of food!! But I'm not sure that I like all this kind of food! I'm from Argentina and I prefer pizza and hamburgers!
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