【正文】 s, British cuisine started to look for a new direction. Disenchanted with the overblown (and undernourished) Nouvelle Cuisine, chefs began to look a little closer to home for inspiration. Calling on a rich (and largely ignored) tradition, and utilizing many diverse and interesting ingredients, the basis was formed for what is now known as modern British food. Game has enjoyed resurgence in popularity although it always had a central role in the British diet, which reflects both the abundant richness of the forests and streams and an old aristocratic prejudice against butchered meats.In London especially, one can not only experiment with the best of British, but the best of the world as there are many distinct ethnic cuisines to sample, Chinese, Indian, Italian and Greek restaurants are amongst the most popular.Although some traditional dishes such as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, Cornish pasties, steak and kidney pie, bread and butter pudding, treacle tart, spotted dick or fish and chips, remain popular, there has been a significant shift in eating habits in Britain. Rice and pasta have accounted for the decrease in potato consumption and the consumption of meat has also fallen. Vegetable and salad oils have largely replaced the use of butter.Roast beef is still the national culinary pride. It is called a joint, and is served at midday on Sunday with roasted potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, two vegetables, a good strong horseradish, gravy, and mustard.Today there is more emphasis on fine, fresh ingredients in the better restaurants and markets in the UK offer food items from all over the world. Salmon, Dover sole, exotic fruit, Norwegian prawns and New Zealand lamb are choice items. Wild fowl and game are other specialties on offer.When the times e to 21st century, the view of food in Britain bees more and more pragmatic. It has a huge difference with the conceptual consume which popular in 90s. Now, Britain’s food market presents a more and more pragmatic trend of consuming.Chapter Four the Significance of Nobility and Pragmatism in British Food and DrinkFood and drink could spread widely. They are not restricted by space, language and so on. Good food and drink could be received by most people of the world. Except a few countries, because of the difference of religious or national customs, most countries’ people could receive foreign countries’ delicious food gladly. The Significance of Nobility in Food ConceptionFood and drink is a part of social life, it also a show of culture. When a foreigner tastes another country’s food or drink, he is experiencing the culture of that country. The information which es from food or drink could increase the taster’s knowledge of that country. For example, the materials of food could make people know that nation’s special products. In India and Thailand’s food, spices are widely used. So, the taster could know that the two countries are rich in spices. At the same time, the decency on the table discloses that country’s religious belief or national custom. Those phenomena help the outside people to know that country. Especial those people who have not been to a certain country, when they taste a kind of food or drink, the impression of food and drink which they get is an impression of that country. This point is very important. The information which es from food or drink through a direct way transmits to the taster. That way is eating or drinking when people are eating foreign food in their own country what they get from food or drink they will consider it as an impression of that foreign country. This point is very important.Nobility and pragmatism which reveals in British food and drink is a very good propaganda. Imagine when a foreigner is drinking afternoon tea, he must feel the nobility strongly. Because of the etiquette, the refreshment and even the story which tells the background of afternoon tea are giving him an impression—drinking afternoon tea is a noble movement. Under such circumstance, food and drink are not substance, but they have bee a representative of a country. The Significance of Pragmatism in Food Style When a foreigner tastes a delicious British dish—Yorkshire putting that pudding’s various materials make him realize Britain is really pay attention to nutrient. The pragmatic in British food culture as following features are very effective, thus he gets an impression that Britain is a pragmatic nation. Nobility and pragmatism are two good characters. A foreigner, who is eating a delicious British food, will feel Britain is an excellent nation when he feels nobility and pragmatism from what he eats. If British food and drink could give a very good impression to other countries’ people, they could be called special diplomats. The significance of pragmatism reviews in food style: 1. The importance of nutrition ingredient binations, root according to various human nutrition (carbohydrate, fat, protein, dimension Raw meat) and heat to arrange the demand and processing cooking..2. Chosen fine materials, materials, in the cuisine. The material is very delicate, elegant, and the material is very wide Pan. Likewise cuisine dishes or rice production mon fruit, Sweet。s new culture. In one word, this work can make the world to know British better and let Chinese food culture exchange go to the world.Bibliography[1] Asha Sahni BellaOnline39。上海外國(guó)語(yǔ)大學(xué)畢業(yè)論文英國(guó)人的民族性格與飲食的關(guān)系畢業(yè)論文Chapter OneNobility and Pragmatism in British National Character There are two things which differ remarkably in the English notional character: nobility and pragmatism. The juxtaposition of the two features is rather rare in other countries as well as their national characters. They are the most important two features which distinguish the English nation out of others. The Source of Nobility in British historyNobil