Melissa Craven

Craven's Crew Class Question (Week of 23 March)

A set of questions about food!

Craven's Crew Questions: Food

For our third interactive week, students back home worked together to develop a class question (which actually turned into a set of questions)! Here’s what they are collectively wondering about life in England!

Craven Crew Question - Food

UPDATE:

What kind of food do you eat?

The potatoes in England are always yummy! I’ve tried fries (called Chips), chips (called Crisps), baked (called Jacket), roasted (called Roasted 😉), and mashed (called Mash) as side dishes. So, I guess I eat lots of potatoes!

So many flavors of crisps

What is your favorite restaurant?

It’s hard to choose just one, so here are a few I keep visiting:

  • Neighborhood spot: Golborn Deli
  • University spot: Tortilla Tacos
  • Traditional spot: Victory Waterloo
  • Special dinner spot: Dishoom Kings Cross
My neighborhood deli
Dishoom (with my son)
Traditional "Fry Up" at Victory

What is your favorite food?

My fave traditional English foods:

  • Sausage roll – flaky pastry wrapped around sausage & fillings
  • Sunday roast – on Sundays, most places serve roast beef or chicken with potatoes, parsnips, carrots, and “Yorkshire Pudding”
  • Marmalade – bitter & sweet jam, with citrus fruit peels; extra-delicious on crumpets (puffy English muffins) with English Breakfast tea to drink
Sausage Rolls

London is a major world city! (Fun tidbit: Over half the people were born in other countries.) SO, it’s quite easy to find any kind of food I’d ever want to try! I can walk from my flat – the British word for apartment – to an authentic Sicilian deli, Lebanese kebab shop, Eritrean restaurant, Argentinian empanada carryout, or English fish & chips shop in 5 minutes.

Cheeri-o! ~Ms.C