Certainly if you enjoy Balti cuisine, Birmingham is worth a look. The Balti is probably from northern Pakistan, but Adil’s of Stoney Lane, Birmingham, have a credible claim to having invented the dish in 1977. Birmingham is home to the ‘balti’, a kind of lamb or goat curry that is now popular throughout the U.S. No one travels to Britain for the cuisine, but Birmingham’s Chinese Quarter and Balti Triangle will serve you some of the best Chinese and Indian food in the country. For the traveler, the diverse migration into the city has some notable advantages in particular when it comes to food. The small nugget of truth lying behind the Fox news story is that the city is “super diverse.” So diverse in fact that, according to a recent study, the city is set to become a “majority minority city” in 2020 when more than half the city’s 1.2 million population will come from non-white British backgrounds. If I had been gambling I’d have placed money against the possibility of returning.

If I was being candid I’d have told you that I was traveling there because I was being paid to. I certainly could not have told you that the city has more miles of canals than Venice, more trees than Paris, gave us the wonder that is Cadbury’s chocolate, and is responsible (among other things) for the invention of the split-nib fountain pen. To be honest, at the time, I was surprised and relieved that they had an international airport that I could fly to direct from Newark. Add to this the fact that the hit television show Peaky Blinders makes it seem as if the city is run by attractive blue-eyed thugs, and the city suffers from something of a public relations problem.Įven though I’m a born Londoner, my impressions of the city before I first visited in 2017 were colored with a vaguely negative uninformed gloss. In January 2015 a Fox news “expert” erroneously said that everyone in Birmingham was Muslim and that the city was a “no-go” zone for non-Muslims. When Americans think of Birmingham, England-if they think of it at all-violence comes to mind.

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