Posted on 08/19/2019 9:40:16 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
What is curry? Today, the word describes a bewildering number of spicy vegetable and meat stews from places as far-flung as the Indian subcontinent, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean Islands. There is little agreement about what actually constitutes a curry. And, until recently, how and when curry first appeared was a culinary mystery as well.
The term likely derives from kari, the word for sauce in Tamil, a South-Indian language. Perplexed by that region’s wide variety of savory dishes, 17th-century British traders lumped them all under the term curry. A curry, as the Brits defined it, might be a mélange of onion, ginger, turmeric, garlic, pepper, chilies, coriander, cumin, and other spices cooked with shellfish, meat, or vegetables.
Those curries, like the curries we know today, were the byproduct of more than a millennium of trade between the Indian subcontinent and other parts of Asia, which provided new ingredients to spice up traditional Indian stews. After the year 1000, Muslims brought their own cooking traditions from the west, including heavy use of meat, while Indian traders carried home new and exotic spices like cloves from Southeast Asia. And when the Portuguese built up their trading centers on the west coast of India in the 16th century, they threw chilies from the New World into the pot. (Your spicy vindaloo may sound like Hindi, but actually the word derives from the Portuguese terms for its original central ingredients: wine and garlic.)
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I get it at Ralph’s (Kroger) in so cal.
I AM the curry master.
My favorite is to take the tail end of a pork loin and split it into two steak size pieces and put in to a zip loc bag.
Dump in 1/2 a bottle of Oyster Sauce, as much garlic as you like, some montreal steak seasoning and about a tablespoon of the curry powder. Mix it all up and grill. Very tasty! Works well on chicken too.
I’ve heard of you!
"Lemon Curry?"
An Indian restaurant is very popular here in Venice, FL. Their Lamb Vindaloo is ecstasy.
The best breaded veal cutlet I ever had was in Japan; with light crispy breading, long before I ever heard the word PANKO.
Ping !
A currywurst with pommes frites on the side washed down with a dunkels on the Kurfurstendamm at 3 in the morning, To die for!(You’d have to have spent time in Berlin to know what the hell I am talking about.)
Oh...I did and I do! What memories! I have tried to replicate currywurst here but it just isn't the same.
We are so lucky to have those memories aren’t we...especially compared to the current mediocrity surrounding us.
“...and smelling curry cooking in the back.”
In my third-ring suburb of the Twin Cities, all you need to do is ride the bus downtown to/from work. rarely a day goes by where you wont smell curry on someone sitting near you.
Meets all the basic daily food groups too!
Flat out, curry came about to hide the taste of meat that’s gone bad.
Nice.
Vermont Curry Mix is a Japanese brand. You can find it most Asian markets. It gets its name because Vermont is world famous for its curry.
Thanks for the pings - it’s a very interesting article.
People don’t realize how varied the cuisine of India really is - a good book on Indian vegetarian cooking, very lovingly composed, is ‘Lord Krishna’s Cuisine’ - this appears to be the latest edition:
Kipling said it in “Kim”
There is no such thing as religion when talking about.......
...good curry.
The secret phrase kim used to recognize other agents.
Curry, we have an all you can eat curry shop here in
Buford Ga. MMMmmmmmmmmm.
786 Kebab & Curry - 1905 Mall of Georgia Blvd, Buford, Georgia 30519
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