On 2/13/2014 7:15 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Alan Holbrook" > wrote in message
> . 3.30...
>> Reading the thred John started on his curried chicken made me think
>> about a
>> time when I worked with an Indian woman who, from the samples I had, was
>> quite an accomplished cook. She used to laugh her butt off whenever
>> Americans started talking about curry. The two points she made were (1)
>> curry means different things in each of the regions of India, and
>> sometimes
>> from cook to cook within a region, and (2) you don't find "curry
>> powder" in
>> India. Everyone makes their own by grinding their particular blend and
>> quantity of spices.
>>
>> Myself, I can't remember years ago when I first started eating and then
>> cooking curry ever using coconut milk. Now it's hard to find a curry
>> recipe that doesn't require it.
>>
>> So we did a pretty good job thrashing "what is chili" to death, let's
>> start
>> on "What is curry?"
>
> I have asked this before and there is no one answer.
>
Here's a start: http://www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/maindish.htm


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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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