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British cuisine — 1960s, Curry house

Decide the order of British cuisine before the pan is hot. “Curry house” in 1960s names that order, and 70 is heat, salt, or time. Do not treat a restaurant photo’s gloss as a quantity. Another northern table of fish, potato and dairy.

British cuisine sits at spice 24 in this atlas. Fish and chips and Sunday roast show the range better than a single heat number. Fish and chips plus one regional plate — not only the export icon. Weekly roast meal with gravy and puddings. London, Manchester and Glasgow do not cook the same dinner. Regional stubbornness is the cuisine, not a footnote.

The home pantry around Sunday roast and the labour behind Sunday roast rarely fit a takeaway box. Are restaurant versions "authentic"? Restaurant British cuisine is one register. Home pots and market stalls are others. Authenticity is a marketing word; technique is not. British food is the local name used in this atlas beside British cuisine.

British cuisine is organised around cheese / beer / pickle and potato / bread. Fish and chips and Sunday roast are the plates most diners meet first. Street and home forms differ. The export icon is real; the pantry behind cheese / beer / pickle is what makes it a system. British cuisine is organised by cheese / beer / pickle and potato / bread.

70 belongs to “Curry house” in 1960s. British cuisine is not a sentence about taste until that measure is there.1960s

Figures to keep

Year of the method
1960s
Measure
70
Dish
British cuisine
Cooking line
Curry house

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