Food
- Bangers and mash
- Black pudding
- Balti – British-style type of curry, served in many restaurants in the United Kingdom. The origins of the Balti style of cooking are uncertain; some believe it to have been invented in Birmingham, England while others believe it originated in the northern Pakistani region of Baltistan in Kashmir from where it spread to Britain.
- Brown Sauce (HP Sauce)
- Bubble and squeak
- Cheddar cheese – modern cheddar cheese manufacture Joseph Harding
- Cornish pasty
- Cottage pie
- Cumberland sausage
- Eccles cake
- English mustard
- Fish and chips
- Full English breakfast
- Gravy
- Haggis – Normally assumed to be of Scottish origin, but the first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as 'hagese'), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North-West England.
- Ice cream – Modern Ice cream 1718 England
- Jellied eels
- Kendal mint cake
- Lancashire hotpot
- Lasagne – Contrary to popular belief, the first recipes for a lasagne-styled dish were found in an English 14th Century cookbook called Forme of Cury, it was a popular dish during the reign of King Richard II.
- Lincolnshire sausage
- Pancake – Modern pancake, English culinary manuscript 1430
- Parkin
- Pasty
- Piccalilli
- Pork pie
- Sausage roll
- Sandwich – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Scotch egg – Invented by the famous London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in 1738.
- Scouse
- Shepherd's pie
- Carbonated water, major and defining component of soft drinks – Joseph Priestley
- Sparkling wine – Christopher Merrett
- Spotted Dick
- Steak and kidney pie
- Sunday roast
- Toad in the hole
- Worcestershire sauce
- Yorkshire Pudding
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Famous quotes containing the word food:
“Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 3:11.
John the Baptist.
“Hume, and other skeptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)