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Caribbean vegetables
Historically, we British have always embraced food from afar but during the second world war our menu was so restricted that the years following we remained in a culinary slumber. But the 1960s brought the beginnings of a culinary revival.
Back in 1969, Nationwide chronicled the changing landscape of British cuisine in this rather quirky little piece documenting the arrival of West Indian foods to our shores.
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