What Food and music and clothing influenced into Britain from other countries?

Answer 1

As with all culinary influences, everywhere, English eating habits have been influenced by readily-available local produce, wild and farmed, as well as by the tastes and cooking methods of every culture the English have come into contact with, which doesn't exclude very many influences at all.

People arriving in England to live from all over the world, as well as the English travelling overseas, have resulted in constant change to English dietary habits.

Initially, countries and cultures close to England - the Celtic areas and what are today France, Germany, Italy and Spain, all had great influence on English food, as did Mediterranean countries including, to some extent, northern Africa.

A huge influence on English cooking was the food of the Indian subcontinent. As part of the British Empire, many English people lived and worked there in a military, government, or commercial capacity, and brought back to England not only styles of cooking, but attitudes to food and meal planning as well. Indian people also migrated to England and their cooking skills considerably enhanced the English experience of food.

Other parts of Asia had earlier begun to greatly influence English cooking. One influence today seen daily on English tables is the variety of ketchup sauces; the word is based on a Chinese/Malay term for fish sauce; this sauce was brought to England by sailors travelling in the East, and it was quickly adapted to English tastes for use as a condiment. Tomatoes were added later, and the name ketchup now is mainly applied to spicy tomato sauce.

Hot and spicy foods quickly found their place in English kitchens and on tables; the Asian influence is particularly apparent in this area. The English have always been very fond of meat, and so necessarily have used all kinds of spices and condiments to dress and preserve meat, as well as to disguise the flavour of meats not altogether well-preserved. This is why spices were so highly-prized and expensive in England: wars were fought over them.

English eating habits settled into a sadly-unhealthy pattern of three meals daily, frequently with the main meal eaten late in the day. Meals consisted of often-overcooked meat and vegetables and stodgy puddings, and had a high fat content not balanced by good nutritional content; these meal patterns were exported along with English migrants to the British colonies such as America, Australia and South Africa.

Today, as in most Western countries, English meals are increasingly planned with good nutrition and attractive appearance in mind, but many English people and their descendants worlwide still cling to the old-style plates of meat-and-three-veg, balanced by fried foods and heavy desserts, believing this to be the only true approach to good eating. As with all habits, good or bad, this is gradually changing with time.

Outside influences continue to affect the life and food choices of people everywhere; the English are no exception.

Answer 2

As Britain rule on half of the world its culture is influnced by many Asian and African countries but most of all it was influenced by India and Pakistan culture and their food..