This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)

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"We" may have invented fire, but our colonial descendants are currently the arsonists.

(400kya I don't think there was an island of Great Britain per se, just a fluctuating landmass more or less covered with ice or connected to the mainland. )

400 kya seems to have been a sea level peak, as you can see on this page strangely titled "sea level in the past 200,000 years". So, island.

https://courses.ems.psu.edu/earth107/node/1496

I find it hard to get sources for that period; there's lots of discussion of the past 100 ky and of millions of years ago, but there's kind of a hole in the 100k-1M year range when it comes to googling.

 

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Or that British cuisine was the prototypical meal from a kitchen.

They were boiling lamb in mint sauce before there were lambs.

 

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??? What have you been eating / reading ???

Astérix!

From googling, it looks like boiled lamb and lamb in mint sauce are actually separate typically British recipes.