South East English Foodways

Regional

KENT — the "garden of England" — with apples, cherries, cobnuts and HOPS, whose oast houses defined the landscape and whose picking drew tens of thousands of Londoners out for a working holiday each September into the 1960s. Whitstable oysters; Romney Marsh lamb; SUSSEX with its pond pudding and its Ashdown Forest; Hampshire watercress; and the modern ENGLISH SPARKLING WINE industry on the same chalk as Champagne, in Sussex, Kent and Hampshire, which has become genuinely internationally competitive since the 1990s. ⚠ ENGLISH WINE AND "BRITISH WINE" ARE DIFFERENT THINGS IN LAW — British wine is made from imported concentrate.