British cuisine



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.