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Migration and English Food

Modern

HUGUENOTS in Spitalfields and Norwich; IRISH in enormous numbers after the Famine, into Liverpool, Manchester and London; JEWS from the Russian Empire from the 1880s, giving fried fish, beigels and salt beef; ITALIANS, with the ice cream and café trade; SOUTH ASIANS — ⚠ and the British curry house is overwhelmingly BENGALI-SYLHETI in origin, not "Indian", a fact the menus obscured for decades; CARIBBEAN arrivals of the WINDRUSH generation from 1948, with the patty, hard food, jerk and Notting Hill Carnival; CHINESE, largely Hong Kong Cantonese, and the takeaway; WEST AFRICAN, TURKISH, POLISH and Eastern European since 2004. ⚠ CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA IS BRITISH, most plausibly Glaswegian, and is not from India.

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Languages: English

What is recorded

  • The British curry house is overwhelmingly Bengali-Sylheti in origin rather than generically Indian, a fact long obscured by menu conventions. Chicken tikka masala is a British dish, most plausibly claimed for Glasgow, and is not from India. documented
  • The Windrush generation arrives from the Caribbean. documented

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