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Migration and Welsh Food

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ITALIANS from Bardi and the Ceno valley built the BRACCHI cafés that served the coalfield with coffee, ice cream and later fish and chips — a genuinely Welsh institution of Italian making; IRISH migration after the Famine into Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr; the SOMALI and YEMENI communities of Butetown, among Britain’s oldest; Chinese, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian communities; and Polish and other Eastern European arrivals since 2004. ⚠ THIS IS WELSH FOOD CULTURE with origins named.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Welsh, Italian

What is recorded

  • The bracchi cafés of the south Wales coalfield were established from the 1890s by Italian families largely from Bardi and the Ceno valley and are recorded as a Welsh institution of Italian making rather than as Italian food abroad. Butetown in Cardiff held one of Britain’s oldest Somali, Yemeni and West African communities. documented
  • Italian families from Bardi and the Ceno valley establish the bracchi cafés of the south Wales coalfield. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Italian documented

    The bracchi cafés of the coalfield were built by families from Bardi and the Ceno valley.

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