{"id":193050,"date":"2023-06-16T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/?p=193050"},"modified":"2023-06-16T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:04:19","slug":"why-fish-and-chips-is-the-british-gastronomy-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/why-fish-and-chips-is-the-british-gastronomy-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fish and chips is the icon of British gastronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Fish and chips is as British as the pompous ceremonials, the white ermine in Westminster Abbey, the Savile Row tailor shops or raising your little finger while sipping your earl grey tea. This dish of working-class origin paradoxically sneaks into that snobbish list to build the nation’s cultural identity. Fog, soccer and fish and chips are the trilogy of the nostalgic evocation of an England of rough but gallant sailors, who brought to the table the cod they fished hard in the North Sea to feed their countrymen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of the dish begins with the persecution of the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, during the 16th century. Many of them ended up in England, taking the fried fish with them. It was a Sephardic dish that they used to eat on Fridays. The leftovers, cold, were eaten the next day on the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest, when cooking was not allowed. The secret was the use of oil, which sealed the flavors, made the flour crispy and the fish very tasty. To those ruddy islanders accustomed to lard, frying in oil seemed revolutionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not the only trip that this fried food undertook from our peninsula: the Japanese tempura arrived in Japan by the hand of the Spanish and Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, and owes its name to the Lenten season, when the Christians exchanged red meat for fish. From England it jumped to the Netherlands, which was also captivated by fish frying. And from there, it went to the United States, where President Thomas Jefferson became a fan of pesca\u00edto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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