Welsh Foodways

Where in the world

• Wales territory

What is recorded

• Welsh foodways are recorded as a first-class national system with its own language, regions and history, placed under British foodways because Wales is a constituent country of the United Kingdom. That placement is a statement about states and not a claim that Welsh food is a variety of English food. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• part of United Kingdom Food Culture documented
• related to Cornish Foodways documented

  Cornish and Welsh are both Brittonic languages, and the mining emigration of both took their food to the same places.

• related to English Foodways documented

  A long shared border, a shared state since 1536-43, and a great deal of shared repertoire — which is a relationship, not an identity.

• related to Irish Community Foodways in Britain documented

  Irish migration after the Famine into Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr, and a Celtic-language kinship across the Irish Sea.

• related to Scottish Foodways documented

  Two Celtic-language countries of the United Kingdom with comparable upland sheep, oat, dairy and chapel traditions.

• related to West Country Foodways documented

  The Bristol Channel, the cider and perry country of the Monmouthshire border, and the Somerset cheese trade.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• originates from Welsh-Argentine Foodways documented

  Y Wladfa was founded in 1865 to preserve the Welsh language in Patagonia; the resulting foodways are Patagonian, not simply Welsh.

• related to Cornish Foodways — the Duchy documented

  Cornish is a Brittonic language related to Welsh and Breton, not to English.

• related to English Cheese Foodways documented

  Caerphilly is Welsh in origin though much made in England.

• related to English Foodways documented

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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