Life of spice
The first known British recipe for a chicken or rabbit curry was in Hannah Glasse’s 1747 Art Of Cookery, titled ‘To make a Currey the India way’.
Morrisons have embraced Curry Week by creating their hottest dish ever. The Flaming Fiery Phaal was made in response to a customer who complained the supermarket’s Volcanic Vindaloo wasn’t spicy enough. With scorpion and naga chillies, the curry tops the
Heat Scale.
Despite its apparent popularity, entrepreneur Dean Mahomed applied for bankruptcy within three years of opening the Hindostanee Coffee House in London. NATIONAL Curry
Week kicks off tomorrow as a celebration of our mighty Indian restaurants and a fundraiser for charity. To mark the week’s 20th anniversary, reporter CHARLES WADE-PALMER has cooked up 10 tasty facts about Britain’s national dish that will have you ordering it tonight. Britain’s first dedicated Indian restaurant, the Hindostanee Coffee House, opened in 1809. Diners smoked hookah pipes and relaxed on bamboo-cane sofas as they tucked into spicy meat and vegetable dishes.
Queen Victoria, who also held the title Empress of India, ordered her Indian staff to cook their national recipes every day on the off-chance a guest from India arrived at Osborne House. A combination of love for curry and dodgy plumbing in Bradford, West
Yorks, turned a city river yellow. Some of Bradford’s 200 Asian restaurants had dumped so much waste down their sinks the River Aire changed colour last April.
A Thai green curry is the dish to spice up your sex life and has been hailed a magical meal full of aphrodisiacs. Almost every ingredient is considered by different cultures to get you feeling sexy, according to JustEat.