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spamtrap1888 wrote:
> On Mar 25, 10:03 am, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
>> Does no one here cook any of the various curries or eat curry? What
>> about our Brit friends?
>> I get the impression that here curry is thought of as one flavor and
>> one dish. And that the jar in the grocery store labeled 'curry
>> powder' is the only flavor of curry.
>> Anyone?

>
> We can make and have made curries from Kolkata to Kota Kinabalu. At
> the moment, we have both whole and powdered cloves, cinnamon, cumin,
> coriander, and cardamom. Also fenugreek, asoefatida, turmeric, and
> powdered chilis. We use fresh ginger and chilis, and we have turmeric
> and galangal growing on the patio, along with a curry leaf tree and a
> Kaffir lime.


You must live in a warmer clime than I and some others do. There
is no way my kaffir lime could live outside all year. Not even
half a year, alas.

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