London Nosh - What you need to know about London's Favourite Dishes
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This Podcast Explores the things that help define London and the British and todays subject is London Nosh – a more in depth analysis of some of British more Iconic dishes such as fish and chips, roast dinners and toast from a factual, practical and historic perspective.
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London Nosh - An overview of British cuisine
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This podcast will look at the some British foodie facts, it will explain some of the history behind the British pallet , and give an overview of some of the stranger British dishes I do briefly touching some of the ones that are more associated with typical British cuisines like fish and chips but – these will be subject to their own Podcast Where as British drinks are well respected around the world, the same is not so true of British Cuisine. We are reasonably happy with it, and are quite loyal to the traditional foods but like Cricket it can seem a bit confusing from...
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London Drinking Culture - Why Tea is better than Coffee - and the history of London Coffee
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This podcast explores why Tea is so much better then coffee and is the perfect London drink. It Just is! In this podcast I will begin with a comparative fact check to test the Hypothesis as to whether teas has superiority over coffee, then I will look at the history of coffee and its journey to being in the top four London as well as the causes of its demise in the 19th century and its re-emergence as a contender/pretender in the 21st century.
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London Drinking Culture - Tea
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This Podcast Explores the things that help define London and the British and todays subject is Tea – and why its so in grained in the British Psyche. We will look at the facts, its history, how to drink it and why is so hard to get a decent cup of tea in London. Tea is the most widely consumed substance after Air and water, It propped up the British empire, helped the industrial revolution defined class, funded wars and made life more bearable For example Its effect on the British It Drove society - In Victorian society ladies regularly visited each other and...
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London Drinking Culture Series- London Gin
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This Podcast Explores the things that help define London and the British and today’s subject in the British culture series is Gin We will look at the facts, its history, the types of gin how to drink and where to drink it, and what to drink it with. Lets start by getting some affirmations about Gin before we deal with some of its unfavourable side effects. Hawkey – MASH – I’ll stick to gin – Champagne is just ginger ale that know someone Winston Churchill – The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives and minds than all the...
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London Drinking Culture - Beer
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This podcast will focus on the London Pint of Beer It will look at the facts, its history, the different types of beer, how and where to drink it Beer has a lot going for it Around the world, humans consume over 50 billion gallons of beer every year. Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic drink on the planet. beer is one of the oldest beverages in the world - Dating back to 7000 years – at least! And beer has been given 5 star ratings from the great and the good – and here are a few examples Plato He is a wise man who invented beer Shakespeare, Henry V...
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London's Drinking Culture - The Pub
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This Podcast Explores the things that help define London and the British and todays subject is the British Pub
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London's Drinking Culture Podcast
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The British Drinking Culture – and why it’s so in grained in the British Psyche. And funnily enough, Grain is the principal ingredient in two of its principal substances - beer and Gin – London’s tipples
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Introduction to Photorun's Views From London Podcast
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This Podcast Series Explores the things that help define London and the British. This is an introduction to what the Podcast series will cover.
info_outlineThis podcast will focus on the London Pint of Beer
It will look at the facts, its history, the different types of beer, how and where to drink it
Beer has a lot going for it
- Around the world, humans consume over 50 billion gallons of beer every year.
- Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic drink on the planet.
- beer is one of the oldest beverages in the world - Dating back to 7000 years – at least!
And beer has been given 5 star ratings from the great and the good – and here are a few examples
- Plato He is a wise man who invented beer
- Shakespeare, Henry V I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. –
- Benjamin Franklin Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. –
- Homer Simpson Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.–
- Henry Lawson – Australian poet Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. –
Beer is in grained in British and European society - and ironically it’s Grain that has provided us food (bread) and drink (beer) for centuries in fact
- Prior to 1700, the average European consumed 182 kg of bread and 182 litres of beer per year (Allen 1992) – so in equal weight as I litre of beer is around a kg in weight.. Half of all spending was on beer and bread, and three-quarters of all calories came from these two sources alone. The reason for massive beer consumption was simple – water was often contaminated. The problem note by – WC Fields who said that the problem with by water is that you never know where its been
This was especially true in the cities where clean drinking water was in short supply but beer was plentiful cheap and safe to drink. It is hence not surprising that it was consumed throughout the day, from breakfast until the late evening.
We have evolved to drink less beer but its still a firm favourite
As is bourn out from the figures – physical and numerical
Quantity wise
In 2018, 8.5 billion pints of beer _ more than any other alcoholic
In comparison 7.4 billion glasses of wine were sold in the UK
And 1.2 billion pints of cider
And the government benefits from this as the British pay a staggering 11 times more beer duty than drinkers in Germany or Spain.