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In his novel "The Secret Agent", Joseph Conrad describes Italian restaurants as a "peculiarly British institution." Are these the same Italian restaurants we're familiar with today, and if so when and why did they stop being associated with the United Kingdom?

by /u/TheD3rp in /r/AskHistorians

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