Fish and Chips. A history
Details:
- Author(s) Panayi, Panikos
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2014
- Pages 176pp; illus
- Publisher Reaktion
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Wide ranging and largely cultural study of fish and chips shops/trade, dealing with 1] origins - early history of fish and potato eating in England, marriage of fish with chips, spread of the trade; 2] evolution - zenith in early 20th century, decline after c1950, transformation and survival; 3] Britishness - food of working classes, construction of an icon, export of the concept; 4] ethnicity - foreign origins, food of the Jews, foreign purveyors such as those of Italian and Greek origin