International cuisine
Walk down many an English high street and you will find restaurants serving food from around the globe. Question is, how many English Resaurants are there in Paris?
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Three fish and chip places listed in Paris by google.
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And England, and Kernow.
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Micky. If you'd said British Cuisine I might have come up with something like L'Entente which serves Shepherds Pie. But why anyone wants their home food when abroad always puzzles me...
Actually, talking of Cornwall, pasties might go down well "over there" especially in cold weather.
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I suppose we could look out for a Prince Charles Groussaka over there or a Pheasant Crumble?
Strange isn't it, a lot of our favourite food has a mixed heritage but at least we are very well known as Les Rosbif. I'm sure you can get that in some Paris bistros.0 -
Have not us Brits taken on foreign cuisine to a far greater extent than many other countries? No doubt due to our mix of nationalities and TV chefs have had an influence on this.
David
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Yes, we Brits have always been a multicultural lot and ours is probably the original fusion cuisine. Afterall, those 'Norsemen' from Britany in 1066 had quite an influence as did their forbears from Scandinavia and those others from Saxony. (Not necessarily in that order) and then the rest of those influences from further afield too came along.
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Yeeuuk!
In my experience you are more likely to see 1 of three sorts of non Parisian restaurants there. Either a regional French one such as from Alsace, or Asian, mainly Vietnamese, or surprisingly a McDonalds. I was really surprised to read somewhere that France has the most McDs outside of America, can't remember if it's numerically or per head of population.
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Haggis
The first known written recipes for a dish of this name, made with offal and herbs, are as "hagese", in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, north west England,[7] and, as "hagws of a schepe"[8] from an English cookbook also of c. 1430.Would you believe it! From the land of the black pudding!
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The Cross of St George pub on the rue Saint Georges , Paris 09 , sounds pretty English to me - and their menu includes full English breakfast, as well as fish and chips with mushy peas.
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I always thought that "international cuisine" meant that the dish came with chips.
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Lancashire, really?🤔
BLACK PUDDING IS A BLOOD SAUSAGE
Black pudding has a interesting history all of its own, stretching back over thousands of years and many countries, but in Great Britain, the black pudding is an essential part of the English breakfast.Black pudding is a kind of sausage, except that unlike normal sausages, you make it with blood. To make a black pudding, you cook blood mixed with a filler (oatmeal) until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled and because of this, black pudding is one of those things people either love or hate.
The very first time that the black pudding appeared in literature was in 800 BC, when black pudding was mentioned in Homer's classic saga 'The Odyssey'. Homer famously described the way people felt in that time about black puddings, when he famously wrote;
As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted.
Later on in the Odyssey, Homer had his champion Odysseus get into a fight for a prize of a stomach stuffed with pig blood and fat. Clearly Homer was a man who liked his black pudding.Black pudding was not just food for the poor, it was also food fit for the nobility and the extravagant breakfast banquets held by King Henry VIII at Hampton Court notably included black pudding on the menu, perhaps because it was a favorite a King who was renowned for his love of food.
800 BC Lancashire inventing Black Pudding😂😂😂
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Listen Mr.Buckets - If my missus says it was born in Lancashire do you really think that I am going to sacrifice myself on the altar of truth? I don't really care who invented it, it could have been Vlad the Impaler for all I care just as long as he came from Lancashire.
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Fair point WN, after extensive research I found this(below). Mrs WN certainly knows Her History👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
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