British cuisine

Fish and chips, a popular take-away food of the United Kingdom

British cuisine is the heritage of cooking traditions and practices associated with the United Kingdom. Although the UK has a rich indigenous culinary tradition its colonial history has profoundly enriched its native cooking traditions. British cuisine absorbed the cultural influences of its post-colonial territories – in particular those of South Asian and Turkish origin.

Quotes

• There are in England sixty different religions and only one sauce.
  • Francesco Caracciolo (1752–1799), attributed in Hugh Percy Jones, Dictionary of Foreign Phrases (1922).
  • Similar remarks are attributed to Voltaire (1694–1778) on various occasions.

• The English have only one sauce, melted butter.
  • Voltaire, attributed as a remark to Adam Smith, in P. J. O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations (2007), p. 184.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on British cuisine on Wikipedia
• Media related to Cuisine of the United Kingdom on Wikimedia Commons
• Cookbook:Cuisine of the United Kingdom on Wikibooks
• Cuisine of Britain and Ireland travel guide from Wikivoyage