#172: The Curious Taste of British Food
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution
The reform ation resulted in the banning of all monks and their monasteries. The effect on british quisine was that the incentive to create interest dishes disappeared. You could now eat meats any day you wanted, so fish plummeted in popularity. At the same time, there was a general move against what were regarded as dangerously foreign dishes - food with too much spice or taste associated with catholicism from continental europe. Eng food, plain, healthy and in its natural form, was especially promoted. With no shortage of fertile land for animals, beef and mutton, often roasted or boiled, became the main ingredient of the day of wealthy people in the sixteenth century. In
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