Food provenance TRADITIONAL/ REGIONAL FOOD The way food is prepared and made, on your doorstep along with customs, and the use of local and seasonal ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region. Traditional British meals have Ham and Pease ancient origins, such as roasted and Pudding Broth stewed meats and meat pies. However, traditions change with time – what would you consider to be a traditional British dish today?

NORTH EAST ENGLAND

Lakeland Traditional Irish Stew Herdwick Cumberland Sausage

Roast Beef and Toad in the Hole Yorkshire Pudding Lancashire Hotpot NORTHERN IRELAND LAKE DISTRICT CUMBERLAND

YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE

Lobscouse LANCASHIRE

Melton Mowbray Pork

LIVERPOOL Newmarket Sausage MELTON MOWBRAY Fidget Pies

Welsh Lamb Welsh Beef Welsh Cawl NEWMARKET SHROPSHIRE

Pie & Mash

WALES WALES WALES

BEDFORDSHIRE

Traditionally Farmed LONDON West Country West Country Old Spots Pork Beef Lamb

Steak & Kidney Pudding

CORNWALL, & , DEVON & GLOUCESTERSHIRE GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Squab Pie Cornish SUSSEX

CORNWALL, DEVON & CORNWALL GLOUCESTERSHIRE

KEY Protected Geographical Traditional Speciality Protected Designation Indication (PGI) Guaranteed (TSG) of Origin (PDO) Products with Products which must be Products which are traditional or have Products which are produced, protected status produced, processed or customary names and have a set of features processed and prepared within a prepared within the geographical which distinguish them from other similar products. particular geographical area and have Traditional or area and have a reputation, features These features must not be due to the geographical a reputation, features or certain qualities regional dishes or certain qualities attributable to area the product is produced in nor entirely based attributable to that area. that area. on technical advances in the method of production.

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