The word "fried" is used in written English and can be used in a variety of contexts.
For example, you could use it to describe a type of food preparation: "The chicken was fried in a light batter." It can also be used to describe the feeling of being exhausted: "After a long day of work, I felt fried."
Arancini, named after the little oranges that these fried rice balls are said to resemble, are best known in this country as a handy way to use up leftover risotto.
Generally popcorn is fried in a huge amount of oil, whereas we use a small amount of rapeseed oil.
Despite its slightly naff name it was heaving with trendy locals, and no wonder as the food turned out to be fantastic: wonderful fried artichokes, seafood pasta and delicious pizza.
In the winter months the mulligatawny soup – a spicy variation on lentil soup cooked in south Indian style – is a perfect compliment to onion bhaji or gobi pakora (cauliflower fried in chick-pea flour).
The base of every korma I make is onions – in some quantity in the case of Yasmeen Murshed's Nawab of Dhaka's family korma, which uses five onions for four people: two of them whizzed to a paste, three crisply fried then stirred into the sauce.
Tapas are rustic, traditional and hearty - aside from the roast ham, a favourite is patatas a la pobre, (potatoes fried with onions and green peppers) topped with a quail's egg.
He has an awesome sense of 'rave zen' about him and proved a consummate host, plying us with fish roe, peppers stuffed with tuna and yoghurt, fried liver, fries with dill, alcoholic bread, juice and vodka.
Food: Lots of unusually decent takeaway options – fish and chips and other fried seafood at RockSalt, wok-fried Asian dishes at Hot Wok, burgers and fries and the like from the Big Grill and pizza at PizzaLove.
When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
But why stick to the traditional when you can have Italian brunches, or Mexican, or Vietnamese (Rice, Paper, Scissors do a killer fried-egg bánh mi)?
There was a brief foray into spiced and stir-fried haslet (a meatloaf made with pig offal), which didn't last long.
