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Migration and Contemporary Scottish Food

Modern

IRISH migration into Glasgow and the west from the Famine onward, which reshaped the city; ITALIANS, overwhelmingly from Barga and Frosinone, who built the Scottish café, the ice-cream shop and a large share of the fish and chip trade — the "Tally caffè" is a Scottish institution of Italian making; JEWS in Glasgow’s Gorbals and in Edinburgh; PAKISTANI and Punjabi communities in Glasgow, where ⚠ CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA is most plausibly claimed, at the Shish Mahal; Chinese, Bangladeshi, Polish since 2004, and more recent Syrian resettlement. ⚠ THIS IS SCOTTISH FOOD CULTURE with origins named.

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Communities and languages

Languages: English

What is recorded

  • Irish migration into Glasgow and the west of Scotland following the Famine. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to British South Asian Food Culture documented

    Chicken tikka masala is most plausibly claimed for Glasgow.

  • related to Italian documented

    Italian families from Barga and Frosinone built the Scottish café, ice cream and fish-and-chip trades.

Recipes

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