Poet Benjamin Zephaniah was born in West Midlands, UK, on April 15th, 1958. One of his most famous poems is The British, published in 2000. Imitating the form of a recipe and using the vocabulary of cooking, it talks about the history and making of the British People.
See the you tube video in which Benjamin Zephaniah and students perform the poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq13dvtZjP4
THE BRITISH (the poem – word document)