Fish and Chips A History

Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Reaktion Books, Limited Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor]
Description176 p. ill 08.500 x 05.500 in.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Convenience Foods
Fish As Food
Great Britain--History.

Summary Annotation Along with London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. In this book, Panikos Panayi unwraps the origins, history and identity of Britain's most popular take-away. Fish and Chips investigates the origins of fish and potato eating in Britain, describes the meal's creation during the nineteenth century and explores the series of technological and economic developments that changed its component foods into items of mass consumption. It describes the height of the dish's popularity in the early twentieth century, and how it has come to remain a favourite today despite new contenders for the title of Britain's national dish. Fish and Chips also explores the connection with issues of class and identity; despite being a notable culinary symbol of Britain, the dish has far more extensive ethnic affiliations. Fried fish was widely consumed by immigrant Jews before spreading to the English working classes in the early nineteenth century, and by the twentieth century other migrant communities such as Italians played a leading role in the fish-and-chip trade.
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ISBN9781780233611
ISBN1780233612 (Trade Cloth) Active Record
Standard identifier# 9781780233611
Stock number00314465

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