Eid cuisine breakfast before offering Eid Prayer. Depending on the locality, the types and forms of the cuisine vary but are always sweet dishes. In South Asia, cham cham, Barfi, Gulab Jamun (a ball shaped milk based dessert immersed in a sugar syrup), and different forms of cakes as well as ras malai (a local dish prepared with milk) are popular. These are not only consumed inside houses but also presented to relatives and friends when visiting them on Eid-ul-Fitr. Baklava and other types of pastry type sweets are eaten in Turkey. Ketupat is commonly served during Eid in Indonesia. Eid-ul-Adha is
A History of English Food won had they been fought by soldiers from a destitute nation." (page 41) Each chapter is opened with a monochrome illustration from its period, with a detailed caption. There are 32 pages of colour plates illustrating famous cookery writers such as Robert May and stages of English cuisine such as "The 1950s kitchen". Page numbers refer to the first English edition. "A History of English Food" was described by "The Independent" as "richly informative" and "surely destined for classic status". The reviewer noted that she had seen badger hams on the bar in the West Country pubs of her childhood,