The Fascinating History of Your Lunch by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French [Jackie French]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730450542
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

‘And he bit it!’ Merv chortled. ‘You should have seen his face!’ (Whenever I see a hamburger nowadays, I think of that mouse!)

PS It is neither polite nor hygienic to put a mouse in a hamburger. Do not try it!

THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF FISH AND

CHIPS

Take a guess. Where do you think the combination of fish and chips comes from?

Well, it’s sort of English and sort of Jewish and sort of Portuguese, with a bit of Irish and perhaps a few eastern European influences too…

When the Portuguese Jewish community was expelled from Portugal back in the 1500s, they took their recipes for fried fish with them—fish fillets that had been dipped in flour, then in beaten egg and then in breadcrumbs, then fried in olive oil. (Most fried food in Portugal at that time was fried in pig fat, but the Jewish religion forbade the eating of pig fat.)

‘Fried Fish in the Jewish Style’ became popular in England. Then in 1860 Joseph Malin, a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, established the world’s first fish and chip shop in the East End of London. His fish and chips were basically Jewish fried fish (now dipped in a flour and water batter, but still fried in oil) plus fried potatoes. There were already Irish ‘potato shops’ in London selling fried and other cooked spuds to Irish immigrants (this was soon after the potato famine in Ireland, when about 40 per cent of the country starved and many others emigrated to Australia or the USA and of course to England too).

But this was the first shop to combine a Jewish fried fish shop and an Irish potato shop, and soon there were fish and chip shops all over England. And wherever the English migrated, they took their fish and chips.

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