Let's start with breakfast, and the divisive black pudding. Black pudding is traditionally made with fresh blood, but today in the UK most producers use dried, powdered and imported blood.

If you ever want to serve blood sausage at a dinner party, you might want to call it black pudding. Those in the know ...

Slice them thickly and gently grill them, or heat them in the oven or lightly fry. Black pudding is a breakfast favourite, but it's a versatile ingredient for brunch, lunch and dinner, too.

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It also has a great reputation as a provider of iron - thanks to the pork blood and zinc. But finding a good black pudding is a bit of a challenge, as I discovered when I looked at this one.

Black pudding is that one item in an English breakfast plate that you either love or hate. Why? Because it has blood in it. But it is also that one item that has the most history, especially here ...

Traditional UK black pudding is a cooked sausage made from pork fat, cereal or oatmeal, seasonings and blood, usually from pigs. People often confuse it with pate or liver sausage, but it's not the ...