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British cuisine — 1, Roman Britain

Roast, pie and a curry-house overlay: Sunday beef, fried breakfast and a food island that absorbed the world. On the table, British cuisine follows “Roman Britain” with amount 1. Stars are not cook times. British cuisine (British food) grew from cheese / beer / pickle and potato / bread. Fish and chips is the postcard, not the whole map.

Roast, pie and a curry-house overlay: Sunday beef, fried breakfast and a food island that absorbed the world. British cuisine (British food) grew from cheese / beer / pickle and potato / bread. Fish and chips is the postcard, not the whole map. 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.

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.

British cuisine needs 1, “Roman Britain,” and 1. Without them the plate is an advertisement. On the table, British cuisine follows “Roman Britain” with amount 1. Stars are not cook times. 11

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