Curry: A Biography of a Dish by Lizzie Collingham

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  • ISBN 10 0701173351
  • ISBN 13 9780701173357
  • Published Aug 04 2005
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 336
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher CCV
  • Imprint Chatto & Windus

Publishers Text

Curry changed and evolved according to the tastes of the various invaders of India. The Mughals brought with them the rice dishes of Persia; the Portuguese introduced the chilli peppers recently discovered by Christopher Columbus in the New World; and the Mrs Beetons and Eliza Actons of the British Raj added jam, carrots and apples to their curry recipes. The Raj also ensured that curry came the other way, from India to Britain - and today the British consume no less than 18 tonnes a year of their favourite chicken tikka masala, a dish which purists claim is not Indian at all, but meat in gravy whipped up with a few spices (and sometimes a can of tomato soup!). Almost every Indian dish is a fusion of different food traditions. This book, which tells the story of such dishes, and the people who invented, discovered, cooked, and ate them, is vivid, entertaining - and delicious.

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