My wife and I say this every time a foreign dish comes up.

I too was looking forward to seeing some great traditional British dishes such as the ones my mother taught me to make.  How can a programme be name "Britains Best Dish" when a very large percentage are not. 

 I try all types of food myself and I am always looking for new recipes, I particularly enjoy spicy recipes, but I did not expect to be watching so many foreign dishes being prepared.  I also wanted to see good traditional dishes such as vegetable broth with dumplings, pot pie, panackelty, spotted ***, baked herring, I could go on.

I can only hope an actual British dish wins the contest.
 

fudgie:

I watch with great delight the daily assortment of dishes preseted to the three judges on Britains Best Dish. 

I am however slightly miffed by some of the origin of some of the dishes.

I was under the impression that the progarmme was called Britains Best Dish for a reason-the dishes should be regional & BRITISH.

In the first week the selection has included at least 2 continental dishes-a spanish dish, Paella & also a French dish, Tarte Tatin.

Where are the fantastic English dishes that are so loved by us all?

Rabbit stew, Casserole with light & fluffy dumplings, fish dishes that are so popular, traditional puddings such as Spotted ***, Apple Pie with all of its regional variations

Why call a progarmme Britains Best & then include foriegn dishes.

Comments please

 

Hello Fudgie,  Like you I am enjoying the show very ,very much.  With regards to the "Origination" of todays dishes being offered up for judgement as "Britains" Best Dish.

Today the United Kindgom (Britain) is a diverse mixture of differing cultures living side by side often as mixed communities and indeed, mixed inter racial families & cultures within Britain and generations of relatively new arriving cultures have their routes in Britain so much so that they regard it as home, and it is.

Take for example Curry.  Its Britains nymber one dish, used to be Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pud's (and i do make fab yorkies myself ;)  )  

I personally emabrace all the differing foods from differing cultures, but as I suggest Britain today is a mixed cultural society, and proud of it we should be I feel, as it promotes "living together" and accepting difference, loving difference between each individual.        

But its a very, very good show, im downloading the recipes, already made the tikka masala (I'm a curry freak ) Love Johns Apple pie, what an absolute pleasure to watch a master create a beautiful dish.

All this food talks making me hungry....  :)

all the best...

 

 

 

 

Couldn't agree more.  As you can see by my handle I don't 'get' cooking at all, other than to make something to stop the rattle in one's guts, BUT, I am hooked on this programme.  Just love to watch the judges salivating and taking things so darn seriously.  It's only grub for goodness sake, which will be gone in a jiffy after so much hard work and washing up afterwards.  Sorry, don't get it, but I agree absolutely and entirely that Indian/Italian/Spanish food etc etc have no place in Britain's Best Dish.  We might be multi-cultural, but please let us Brits have our own grub take the limelight for a change, huh?  No?  Oh well, I suppose it just would not be cricket (sorry - British) for us not to be so politically correct all the time. What a lovely bunch of people we are in this country!

 

So England does exist then? Normally Scotland, Wales, and NI abhor being called British.  'We're Scottish,' I hear you say, or 'We're Irish,' etc etc.  England is the only nation in these isles that is proud to be called British and uses the expression, so what exactly is your gripe again?

Good for you.  I think you'll find the date is about face because it's the American way(!?) month first, day after.  Crackers, I know.

I totally agree with you mate, where is the Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pud, or Toad in The hole,

The Best Of Britain, it seems it's the judges choice as to what they put in, is Curry of any kind

British, sooner have a good Irish Stew,

The Big Pud.

i dont agree that it should only be british dishes. If the british people eat Pasta,pizza,curry,rice and more that are from other countries,then it should be cooked because the british people eat it. I think that if non- British foods cannot be cooked on the show then it should not be eaten by british people.

 

Sorry Kiko, but the programme is called 'BRITAIN's Best Dish, not ANYTHING THAT IS EATEN IN BRITAIN. We could bring in Felix, Pal and Trill, if that were the case, after all, that too is eaten in Britain by it's beloved animal population.  The title implies that the food should be British through and through.  I very much doubt that if your homeland had a TV programme entitled 'China's/Japan's/Thailand's Best Dish, (or wherever you hail from), there would be no doubt whatsoever that Shepherd's Pie would not be tolerated, even if it is eaten by half the country.  Be fair!  We are looking for British Food here, from old British recipes, because so much from other countries has infiltrated our very nature and culture that we practically have no nationality anymore, and when we try to do something for ourselves, you're all up in arms.  This is Britain after all and our food is in danger of dying out.  It is scoffed at (excuse the pun) by other countries, particularly the French (who say we are a country of only one sauce).  We are accused of having no idea of cuisine and that our food is boring and bland, so now that we have a national forum to prove these sceptics wrong, we need to be allowed to cook and present our own food on this programme.  You can always ask ITV to do a programme presenting your food if you want, but meanwhile, while we all live and work in Britain, leave us to cook and eat and watch British food on British TV, being presented as is implied by it's very title!

I think us Brits are more multi cultural these days and embrace the lifestyle and the culinery delights of other countries.  There is a wide variety of different foods available and do not just stick to traditional ways and customs.  For example Cornish Pasties are not just available in Cornwall - they are available nation wide.

yes but cornish pasties are traditional BRITISH food. Britians best dish should be made with British ingredients, EG british meat cheese cream veg, support your local farmers !!

how about Toad in the Hole??

Oh well said! This program has only just arrived down under and it is good to see the variety of cooking. The point I think is to make good recipes from great British produce, not stay stuck in the past with old recipes. That said, I totally agree that there are some fabulous British dishes that have stood the test of time and they are here today by their own merit. My partner is English and he gets hung up on the same "But its not a British dish" idea. If the produce is British then the dish is British, get it! We spent 5 weeks in Britian (England, Wales, Scotland) last year and while the pub food was generally good it was all the same and got a bit boring after a week. However, hotel food was poor, with breakfast being utterly awful, but then we weren't staying at 5-star establishment. I say keep up these competitions and stretch the boundaries, it can only do Britian good!

I have just finished watching the final of this great programme.  As Glensyd wrote, we have only just received it in Australia and I have had a wonderful few weeks watching ordinary British people cooking their favourite dish.  Does it matter where they were born, or whether the dish is strictly british, not to me.  My interpretation of the program was that it was Britains favourite dish from the competition not something that is a traditional British dish.  If we had a similar programme here I would not be downloading recipes for Kangaroo as I cannot stand it, but we have a diverse community made up of all nationalities and in Australia we embrace this in our food and our acceptance that there may be something better out there.

Top programme ITV, hope there is a repeat, love your judges but would really like to see Angela Hartnett there she is such a crack up and so unpretensious.  Thank you for taking me through a journey of Great Britain through your food.

i am loving the new series, have been watching avidly. i too make a great sticky toffee pud as its my alltime favourite. is there any chance i could have the recipe for the pud that has gone through to the semi finals. then i can compare