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Arbroath Smokie, Arbroath, Angus & Dundee
Bakewell Tart, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Bath Chaps, Bath, Bath
Bedfordshire Clanger, Bedford, Bedfordshire
Bloaters, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Braughing Sausages, Braughing, Hertfordshire
Caerphilly Cheese, Caerphilly, South Wales
Chelsea Buns, Chelsea, London
Cheshire Cheese, Malpas, Cheshire
Cornish Pasty, Cornwall
Cranachan, Angus & Dundee, Scotland
Cromer Crab, Cromer, Norfolk
Crusty Swansea, Swansea, South Wales
Cumberland Pie, Carlisle, Cumbria, England
Cumberland Sausage, Cumbria
Devonshire Clotted Cream, Devon
Double Gloucester, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Eccles Cakes, Eccles, Lancashire
Gloucester Pancakes, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Goosnargh Cakes, Goosnargh, Lancashire
Goosnargh Duck, Goosnargh, Lancashire
Grasmere Gingerbread, Grasmere, Cumbria
Guernsey Gache, Guernsey
Haggis, Highlands, Scotland
Herdwick Sheep, Cumbria
Herefordshire Cider, Herefordshire
Irn Bru, Edinburgh and the Lothians, Scotland
Islay Whisky, Bowmore, Isle of Islay
Jellied Eels, London
Kendal Mint Cake, Kendal, Cumbria
Kentish Beer, Faversham, Kent
Kentish Cobnuts, Kent
Lancashire Hot Pot, Lancashire
Lincolnshire sausages, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Stuffed Chine, Boston, Lincolnshire
Lindisfarne Mead, Lindisfarne, Northumberland
London Porter, Shoreditch, London
Lorne Sausage, Lorne, Argyll
Morecambe Bay Shrimps, Morecambe, Lancashire
Norfolk Black Turkeys, Norfolk
Norfolk Dumplings, Norfolk
Old Spot Pork, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Oldbury Tarts, Oldbury on Severn, Gloucestershire
Oxford Sausage, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Plymouth Gin, Plymouth, Devon
Pontefract Cakes, Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Pork Pies, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Red Leicester, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Sage Derby, Derby, Derbyshire
Scotch Pie, Highlands, Scotland
Speyside Whiskies, Grampian
Staffordshire Oatcakes, Staffordshire
Stiffkey Blues, Blakeney, Norfolk
Stilton Cheese, Stilton, Cambridgeshire
Stornoway black pudding, Stornoway, Western Isles
Suffolk Ham, Suffolk
Sussex Pond Pudding, Sussex, England
Tablet, Glasgow, Scotland
Tamworth Pigs, Tamworth, Staffordshire
Tewkesbury Mustard, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
The Bridie, Forfar, Angus & Dundee
Wensleydale Cheese, North Yorkshire
Whitby Lemon Buns, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Whitstable Oysters, Whitstable, Kent
Wiltshire Bacon, Swindon, Wiltshire
Yorkshire Pudding, North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Spice Cake, Ripon, North Yorkshire

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Classic British recipes
After centuries struggling beneath an inferiority complex when it came to food, Britain in the last couple of decades has thrown that complex off and begun to regain belief in its culinary expertise.

Look beyond the celebrity chefs and foodies on whom the media tend to turn a devoted and sometimes uncritical gaze, and you find an army of craft food producers. In a multitude of towns, and many villages too, you will come across unheralded chefs in local restaurants turning out top quality food.

These chefs are backed up by another force, the craft food producers: farmers rearing quality Herdwick mutton and salt marsh lamb; cheese makers keeping traditional flavours alive; regional and micro-breweries sending ales of character to a selected list of pubs and stockists; bakers who still know how to make proper gingerbread, local pastries and cakes.

Britain has some fantastic food traditions, a wonderful heritage of local produce as rich as that of say France or Italy. It's not a static heritage either, with each wave of new Brits adding something of their own to the pot. Once fish and chips was a novelty, taking the Jewish fried fish tradition from the East End and adding the fried potatoes beloved of the Huguenots to make something that now is as British as.. Yorkshire pudding? or Chicken Tikka?

Information Britain celebrates these traditions, these local products that a few years ago were often on the verge of disappearing, but are now recognized for their excellence again. And we celebrate too the craftsmen and craftswomen behind them, the little shops and breweries and farms that hopefully locals know already and visitors should find out about if they are not to miss out on Britain's real culinary treats.

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