London’s original fast food is making a comeback. Bring on the jellied eels.

With David Beckham’s endorsement, old pie shops and posh hotel restaurants are seeing a surge in demand for minced beef, ...
BBC

Do you need to be from London to be a cockney?

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...
Yahoo! Sports

David Beckham dresses Victorian, eats Victorian food

Shortly after shining some shoes, cleaning a chimney and thanking Ebenezer Scrooge for sending a prize turkey to his family home for Christmas, famous Victorian cockney David Beckham visited a pie & ...
London Evening Standard

Would you Adam ’n’ Eve it? Cockney history revealed

An exhibition tracing Cockney English from before the time of Charles Dickens through to the music of Blur and N-Dubz opens tomorrow. Lyrics from songs written in recent years show how "ain't" is ...
SFGate

History defeated / London's East End emerges from seedy past and opens its gentrified streets to visitors

2002-10-13 04:00:00 PDT London-- In the summer of 1902, the writer Jack London, disguised in raggedy clothes, ventured into Frying Pan Alley, a greasy little lane in this city's gritty East End.