Transcript Powerpoint 5 – Variety and Flavour activity

Stories of migration, displacement and new beginnings
Powerpoint 5
‘Variety and Flavour’
In your group, look at the photographs of the fruit and vegetables traditionally available in the
UK. Make a list of all the fruit and vegetables you can see.
Safeway Supermarket, Loughborough in 1982
Photograph by Lynne Dyer
Portobello Market, London in 1958
‘There was a basic range of vegetables available here at that time.’
Daphne Beale
(talking about the late 1970s)
Now look at these photographs of Loughborough Market taken more
recently.
Make a list of the fruit and vegetables you can see in them.
What do you notice?
What has happened to the range of fresh foods
available to shoppers since the first set of
photographs were taken?
When a group of Leicestershire residents were asked to remember what
foods they ate in the 1970s and 80s, they came up with the following list:
Breakfast:
Weetabix
Packed lunches, tea-time meals
or snacks:
Hot meals:
Puddings and sweet treats:
Wagon wheels
Weetabix with butter and jam
Liver and gravy with mashed potatoes
and tinned beans
Bread and butter
Egg and chips
Club biscuits
Buttered toast
Bread in milk
Sausages and chips
Angel delight (flavoured
powder mixed with milk)
Frosties
Jam or dripping on toast
Steak and kidney pie
Birds trifle
Sugar Puffs
Kippers with bread and butter
Shepherd's pie
Jelly and evaporated milk
Rice Crispies
Sandwiches, made on thin bread with
–
Roast beef and Yorkshire puddings
with potatoes, cabbage and carrots
•
peanut butter
Tinned fruit in juice (oranges,
pineapple, cherries, pears,
grapes, peaches)
Meat and potato pie
•
jam
Oranges
•
Marmite
Pork chops with gravy, potatoes and
cabbage
Bananas
•
crab, beef or chicken sandwich
paste
Blackberries and raspberries
(when in season)
•
Spam
Rhubarb
•
corned beef
•
egg and cress
•
Cheese
Porridge
Cornflakes with sugar
Fresh fruit:
Apples
Crisps
Stew and dumplings
Cod in parsley sauce with tinned
potatoes and frozen peas
Tinned or powdered soups
Minced beef rissoles (similar to a
burger but eaten with potatoes and
vegetables)
Penguin bars
Tinned rice pudding
Steamed treacle puddings
(homemade or from a tin)
Blancmange made from a
packet
Fruit crumbles (whichever fruit
was in season)
Now, with a partner, make a list of all the meals you like to eat.
When you’ve run out of ideas, join up with another pair and see what ideas
you can add to each other’s lists.
Now compare the list you made with the list of meals from the 1970s and
80s.
How similar are the lists?
How different?
What do you notice?
What does this tell you has happened to British diets between the 1970s
and now?
As a group, summarise your ideas in a sentence or two.
Multicultural food
in Leicester
Leicester’s first Chinese
restaurant was ‘The Hung Lau’ opened in the 1960’s by Gok
Wan’s grandfather.
This was followed by his father’s
restaurants - ‘The Bamboo House’
and ‘The Panda’ - and his Aunt’s
restaurant - ‘Peking’ - on Charles
Street.
Leicester Mercury,
2nd November 2013
The first Asian sweet shop in Leicester was ‘Milan’s Sweets’ in 1969 and the now famous
‘Bobby’s Restaurant’ selling traditional vegetarian food was established in 1976.
Changing Spaces, Trading Places Project material
Photo courtesy of Bobby’s, Leicester
‘Any new vegetables that can be grown in this country to add variety and
flavour to our diet when cooking must be welcome.’
Paul Gimson,
Horticultural Manager, Loughborough Farming Project,
speaking in 1981
‘Centuries of foreign influences on
our island have changed the whole
landscape of what we eat and how
we eat it. We’re like magpies. And
that is what I really love about
British food. It tastes so good, and
it’s ours now.’
Jamie Oliver, Jamie’s Great Britain,
Channel 4, November 2011
Jamie Oliver with Amita Mashru on Leicester market.
Photograph from The Leicester Mercury – permission
not yet sought
‘Immigration has shaped the make-up of British society and British culture.
Being able to go into an Indian restaurant is taken for granted, as is the
presence of so many black musicians in the charts.’
Michelle Wilkinson,
‘The Influence of Immigration on British Culture’,
14 February 2011
Created for Charnwood Arts by Alison Mott