{"id":1496,"date":"2014-05-17T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.7.128\/wpmigrate\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:47:34","slug":"how-to-eat-like-a-local-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/travel\/how-to-eat-like-a-local-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"How to eat like a local in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/walesfoodbrains.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brains Beer in Wales\" title=\"Brains Beer in Wales\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\" \/>Wales is an exceptional destination &#8211; full of green rolling hills and history &#8211; not completely taken over by high rises and large cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With a tradition of agriculture, sheep farming, cheese making, beer\/ale and drink production, there&#8217;s no wonder Wales is quickly being rediscovered as a popular food destination for local, eco, and organic eating movements.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re thinking of visiting Wales &#8211; here&#8217;s are the top local foods and specialties you&#8217;ve got to try in Wales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to eat like a local in Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bara Brith<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Welsh fruit bread that would traditionally be the centerpiece of a Welsh tea table.&nbsp; The bread contains mixed dried fruit, tea, marmalade, spices, flour, eggs, and brown sugar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cawl<\/strong> is a Welsh version of beef or lamb and vegetable stew or soup and is often served with a healthy loaf of bread.&nbsp; It&#8217;s often cooked with potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, leeks and known as a &#8220;meal in a pot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faggots <\/strong>are Welsh meatballs that are made from lamb or pig&#8217;s liver mixed with onions and cereal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glamorgan Sausages<\/strong> are not actually sausages, but a mix of cheese and eggs shaped as a sausage, covered with breadcrumbs and toasted or fried.&nbsp; Often served as a side or appetizer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bara Lafwr or Laverbread <\/strong>is made with <em>laver<\/em> or seaweed, high in protein, iron, and iodine.&nbsp; The seaweed is boiled and then minced or pureed into a paste.&nbsp; The paste can be spread on toast, mixed with oatmeal and fried into cakes, fried up with bacon and cockles (small clams) for a Welsh traditional breakfast, used as a sauce with lamb or fish, or used to make laver soup.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/walesfoodcakes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Welsh Cakes\" title=\"Welsh Cakes\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welsh Cakes <\/strong>are mini raisin griddle cakes served with tea, as opposed to the English scone.&nbsp; They&#8217;re flat and cooked\/fried on a griddle to give them a soft, buttery texture, finished with coarse sugar on top.&nbsp; They&#8217;re often served with butter, and less often with butter and cream.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leek Soup<\/strong> is a popular starting dish in Wales because the leek is one of the most well known symbols in Wales before the red dragon.&nbsp; The importance of the leek comes from an old tale: during a war between the Welsh and an enemy, the Welsh side picked leeks out of the ground and pinned bunches to their chest to differentiate themselves from the opposition.&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Welsh Rarebit<\/strong> is a popular snack or side dish found in Wales and in the UK.&nbsp; It&#8217;s made with dark beer, butter, and strong cheddar cheese mixed together in a pan until turned into a paste.&nbsp; The paste is spread on a piece of buttered toast and finished for a few more minutes in the oven, then served with Worcestershire sauce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jams and Preserves<\/strong> are also very popular throughout Wales.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll find many of the typical marmalades and local fruit jams like plums, apricots, plums, rhubarb, and etc.&nbsp; However, you&#8217;ll also find unusual chutneys like green tomato, mango and cumin, cauliflower and pumpkin, and etc.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheese<\/strong> from Wales has a long history of top-quality cheese production.&nbsp; The cheese is so good that it was once part of divorce settlements.&nbsp; Today, cheeses are made by small to medium-sized local producers who are making the most popular Welsh cheeses: caerphilly, acorn, celtic promise, llanboidy, teifi, red dragon, and tintern cheeses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/walesfoodbeef.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Black Beef in Wales\" title=\"Black Beef in Wales\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\" \/>Local Beer, Ales, Mead, and Cider <\/strong>in Wales can be found at nearly every local pub.&nbsp; As Guinness is Ireland&#8217;s home brew, so Brains is Wales&#8217; favourite beer.&nbsp; Mead, made from honey, is a dessert drink and has been produced in Wales since 600 AD.&nbsp; Meads are often flavoured with other fruits like apple, raspberry, blueberry, and etc.&nbsp; Ciders are another popular local product.&nbsp; Local wines can be found but are not as popular as the above. &nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Penderyn Whisky <\/strong>is a single malt whisky and is more or less the only Welsh whisky producer.&nbsp; Even though Wales has been making whisky since the Middle Ages, a huge decline in the production of whisky occurred in the 19th century due to a rise in the temperance movement throughout the country.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welsh Lamb<\/strong> is the most popular meat in Wales &#8211; after all, with 10 million sheep in the country, sheep outnumber the population of Wales by something like 4:1.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welsh Black Beef<\/strong> is the second major meat product in Wales after lamb.&nbsp; 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