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British cuisine — Curry house · 229

The home pantry around Sunday roast and the labour behind Sunday roast rarely fit a takeaway box. 229 Sticky toffee pudding is cooked from London to diaspora rooms as a reference plate of British cuisine. On the table, British cuisine follows “Curry house” with amount 70. Stars are not cook times. Does Fish and chips abroad still count as British cuisine when the pantry is rewritten?

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 1960s, “Curry house,” and 70. Without them the plate is an advertisement. On the table, British cuisine follows “Curry house” with amount 70. Stars are not cook times. 701960s

Figures to keep

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

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