Roast beef

Roast Beef

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Roast beef

Roast beef is a cut of beef

Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle . Beef is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of Australia, European cuisine and the Americas, and is also important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia....
which is roasted

Roasting

Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat, whether an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting usually causes caramelization or Maillard reaction of the surface of the food, which is considered a flavour enhancement....
in an oven

Oven

An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. It is most commonly used in cooking and pottery. Ovens used in pottery are also known as kilns....
. Roast beef is often served within sandwiches and sometimes is used to make hash

Hash (food)

Although it can technically be made of a combination of any finely chopped ingredients, hash is often a mixture of beef , onions, potatoes, and spices that are mashed together into a coarse, chunky paste, and then cooked, either alone, or with other ingredients....
. In England

England

Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, and Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
roast beef is one of the meats traditionally served at Sunday Dinner. A traditional side dish to roast beef is Yorkshire pudding

Yorkshire pudding

Yorkshire pudding is a dish that originated in Yorkshire, England and has attained wide popularity. It is made from batter and most often served with roast beef, chicken, or any meal in which there is gravy served with it, or on its own....
.

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Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, the English

England

Sunday roast

The Sunday roast is a traditional British cuisine main meal served on Sundays , consisting of roasted meat, roast potatoes together with accompaniments, such as vegetables and gravy....
, which is why the French

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
call them les rosbifs (the roast beefs) (see also Alternative words for British

Alternative words for British

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Roast beef is a cut of beef

Beef

Roasting

Oven

Hash (food)

England

Ireland

Canada

Australia

Yorkshire pudding

In culture

In Europe

Europe

England

Sunday roast

France

Alternative words for British

The official designated nationality of the people of the United Kingdom is British. The standard noun is British people , but in colloquial usage this is often abbreviated informally to Brit....
). Another theory for the derivation of this name is a French mockery of the English: being relatively fair in comparison to the French, they easily get sunburned, resulting in red skin that resembles the pink-colored slices of rare-cooked roast beef.

According to research carried out by the Museum of London

Museum of London

The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. The museum is located close to the Barbican Centre, and a few minutes walk north of St Paul's Cathedral, overlooking the remains of the Roman city wall and on the edge of the oldest part of London, known as the City of London, now the financial distr...
amongst Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
rubbish dump

Landfill

File:Wysypisko.jpgFile:Landfill face.JPGFile:Landfill.jpg A landfill, also known as a dump , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of list of solid waste treatment technologies....
s in London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, it seems that Britons acquired their first taste of roast beef from the Roman

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
military as the city expanded under their occupation. Despite this, it seems not to have become popular amongst the population in general until the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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or later, and only became a 'national caricature

Caricature

A caricature is either a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, or in literature, a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others....
' in the 18th century. William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
suggests a reputation of the English to gorge on beef, when in the play Henry V

Henry V (play)

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War....
, act 3, scene 7, before the Battle of Agincourt

Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 ...
he has the Constable of France

Constable of France

The Constable of France , as the First Officer of the Crown, was one of the original five Great Officers of the Crown of France and Commander in Chief of the army....
say

"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils".

Cooking

Roast beef is traditionally served "rare" or "pink" meaning that the centre of the joint is warmed, but not cooked so that it retains the red colour of raw beef. It should be noted however that there are health concerns associated with the consumption of raw meat.

Roast beef

In culture

Cooking

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