This week Lou and I have looked at the joy that is fish and chips. Which as everyone knows somehow taste better when eaten at the seaside. Indeed apart from a picnic, which is essentially the inside taken outside, there are few hot meals that we eat in in full public view.
The exact origins of fish and chips, like many working-class dishes, are lost to the mists of time. Interestingly it wasn't by the seaside that it was invented, but in our cities. Both London and Lancashire claim the glory for being the home of the dish. A fish-frying warehouse is mentioned in Oliver Twist, situated on Saffron Hill near Holborn, London. Joseph Malin, a Jew born in Eastern Europe, is credited with opening the first fish and chip shop in the East End of the capital in 1860. [MORE]
FIsh and chip image on the homepage by Fiona Wilkinson used under CC licence
