Believe it or not, British food has a glorious past. Maria Davies welcomes the new trend for traditional food and its promise of better health.
Ask for a defining dish of their native island and most British people would struggle to get beyond fish and chips or roast beef and Yorkshire pud. Good food seems to have been erased from our cultural identity, yet Britain was once considered the gastronomic centre of the world. But the crown slipped, and our culinary credentials have long been a matter of national shame. Now, however, the tide is turning and we are currently enjoying a revival of traditional British cuisine, set to put us back on the gastronomic map. It may even improve the health of the nation.
British food is like our history – a concoction of influences, flavours and fashions, which have shaped who we are as well as what we eat. Fusion food may appear to be a recent trend, but that is hardly the case. We have been eating a glorious fusion of foreign dishes for over two thousand years, either because of marauding invaders to our shores, or as a result of our own incursions into other people’s territory.
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