British Foodways

Where in the world

• United Kingdom territory

What is recorded

• British foodways is an umbrella over four constituent-country traditions. It is not a synonym for English food, and the United Kingdom is a political frame rather than a cuisine. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• influenced by British Caribbean Food Culture documented
• influenced by British Chinese Food Culture documented
• influenced by British South Asian Food Culture documented
• part of Northern European Foodways documented

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• migrated to Guyanese Diaspora Foodways documented
• migrated to Jamaican Diaspora Foodways documented

  The Windrush generation from 1948; the patty and the jerk shop are now British food.

• originates from British Diaspora Foodways documented
• part of English Foodways documented

  ⚠ England is a constituent country of the United Kingdom. This is a statement about states, not a claim that English food is a subset of a British cuisine.

• part of Scottish Foodways documented

  ⚠ As above. Scotland is a country of the United Kingdom with its own legal system, languages and food traditions.

• related to Barbados Foodways documented

  English continuously from 1627 — longer than any other Caribbean territory under one power.

• related to Canadian Foodways documented
• related to Danish Foodways documented

  The bacon and butter export trade to Britain from the 1880s shaped Danish pig breeding, curing and dairying for a century.

• related to East Frisian Tea Culture documented

  Two very different tea cultures out of the same East India trade.

• related to Faroese Foodways documented

  The wartime British occupation and the fishing trade with Britain.

• related to Icelandic Foodways documented

  Gaelic settlement at the start, the salt-fish trade with Britain, the wartime occupation, and the Cod Wars.

• related to Irish Foodways documented

  Long-documented exchange of ingredients, techniques and terminology between neighbouring food cultures.

• related to New England Foodways documented

  English settlement from 1620; the baked bean, the boiled dinner and the pudding come through that.

• related to North Atlantic Foodways documented

  Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides belong to the same island-and-sheep world.

• related to Northern Irish Foodways documented
• related to Norwegian Foodways documented

  North Sea fish, timber and shipping trade, and the Scottish and Orkney connections of the south and west coast.

Regional cuisines

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