Fish and Chips: A Takeaway History

Along with red London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. Yet although we think of it as quintessentially British, fried fish was first introduced and sold by immigrant Jews before it spread to the British working during the course of the nineteenth century; by the twentieth century other migrant communities such as Italians and Greek Cypriots were playing a leading role in the fish and chip trade. Later, technological and economic dev...