Tag: England

The British Afternoon Tea Ritual

The British Afternoon tea ritual is said to have been invented by Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford in the early 1840s. Traditionally dinner was not served until 8:30 or 9:00 in the evening. To tide the duchess over until dinner she would order up a small meal of tea, bread, butter, cakes, tarts and biscuits at about four in the afternoon. This custom of […]

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British Curry is Like No Other in the World!

British curry is supposed to be so good that sometimes chefs say that it was actually the British invented curry. Of course this is not true because curry as a dish was technically was invented in India. In India in the mid 1800s British cooks and housewives who relocated there during Colonial times had to learn Indian ways of cooking so that they could use […]