Gastronomy.

English cuisine mixes the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England. It has distinctive attributes of its own, but also shares much with wider British cuisine, largely due to the importation of ingredients and ideas from places such as North America, China and India

In the Early Modern Period the food of England was historically characterised by its simplicity of approach and a reliance on the high quality of natural produce. It is possible the effects of this can still be seen in traditional cuisine.

About 12 o´clock,  English begin to have lunch. They eat typical dishes like :

-Fish and chips : is a popular take-away food in the United Kingdom. It consists of fish which is battered and then deep-fried (is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat e.g.oil ) served with chips (fries). It is sometimes accompanied by other items such as mushy peas or tartar sauce. 

• England is internationally famous for its fish and chips and has a large number of restaurants and take-away shops selling this dish. It may be the most popular and identifiable English dish. In some regions fish and chips were served with a side order of mushy peas with salt and vinegar as condiments. Foods such as deep fried bread are usually on offer as well as fishcakes and a number of other combinations.

- Cottage pie : is a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato.A vegetarian  version can be made using soya or other meat substitutles( like tofu ), or legumes such as lentils or chickpeas. 

- Faggots: are a traditional dish in the United Kingdom, especially South and Mid Wales and the

Midlands ofEngland. It is made from meat off-cuts and offla, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes bread crumbs

-The Sunday roast : The Sunday roast was once the most common feature of English cooking. The Sunday lunch traditionally includes  (or roast potatoes ) accompanying a roasted joint of meat such as roast beef, lamb, pork, or a roast chicken and assorted other vegetables, themselves generally boiled and served with a gravy

- Cauliflower cheese : sometimes called cauliflower and cheese, is a traditional British dish. It can be eaten as a main course, for lunch or dinner, or as a side dish, commonly accompanying roast meats such as beef or pork.

After a delicious lunch, a tasty dessert, like :

 Pudding recipe :  Milk and lemon zest are heated to boiling in a saucepan. Sugar,butter and breadcrumbsn are mixed into the hot milk, which is allowed to cool. Egg yolks  and a whole egg  are beaten into this mixture, which is transferred into a deep pie dish then baked,The firm, brownish base is then spread with jam  and a meringue mix made from the reserved egg whites is spooned over the jam. The pudding is returned to the oven and baked until the meringue is golden, but still soft. The pudding is eaten hot.