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Curry : A Biography
January 19,
Despite the intuition that its quasi-offensive title was merely intended for marketing purposes, the title turns out to be fairly apt as you make your way through the book.
For starters, 'curry' (a loanword from the Tamil, which simply meant 'spicy') was never a thing for Indians, it was a British imposition on a complex and varied food culture that they had neither the capacity nor the inclination to fully assimilate, adopting the word to refer to any spicy broth. Curry then became the chief symbol for British attempts to domesticate Indian food, being the impetus for Anglo-Indian cuisine, and eventually making its way back to Britain where it enjoyed its heyday in popularity during the Victorian era. Curry also has its modern signification in British pub culture, again highlightng how far from its native shores (and how mutated it had become), Indian food had travelled.
With a single astutely chosen word, the author thus demonstrates the interm Curry a biography lizzie collingham net worth!
For starters, 'curry' (a loanword from the Tamil, which simply meant 'spicy') was never a thing for Indians, it was a British imposition on a complex and varied food culture that they had neither the capacity nor the inclination to fully assimilate, adopting the word to refer to any spicy broth. Curry then became the chief symbol for British attempts to domesticate Indian food, being the impetus for Anglo-Indian cuisine, and eventually making its way back to Britain where it enjoyed its heyday in popularity during the Victorian era. Curry also has its modern signification in British pub culture, again highlightng how far from its native shores (and how mutated it had become), Indian food had travelled.
With a single astutely chosen word, the author thus demonstrates the interm Curry a biography lizzie collingham net worth!