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Lets Talk Curry / Re: bruce edwards

« on: June 08, 2008, 03:57 PM »

Thanks for that Gary - and everyone else. All I can say is that if I had known at the start how long this quest would take and what it would involve, it might well have turned out differently. Anyway, I hope to be able to offer some help soon.
Stew, email has just been re-sent.
regards,
Bruce.

Lets Talk Curry / Re: bruce edwards

« on: June 01, 2008, 06:43 PM »

Stew - just wondering if you got the email as we haven't heard anything from you.

Bruce.

Lets Talk Curry / Re: bruce edwards

« on: May 26, 2008, 05:15 PM »

That`s quite a response to my post- thank you all for the good wishes and support.
It's true Bruce hasn't received any payment for his curry articles, apart from some free copies of the Curry Club magazine, but money isn't an issue; after all the work he would simply like to see something in print.
Thank you Stew for the offer re the ebook. It is certainly worth considering but not right at this moment. We are exploring the possibilities of self publishing. B isn't averse to financing the production of a book but marketing is another matter and that would obviously have to be set up before going ahead.
On a slightly different tack; B obviously realises there are a lot of people who are desperate ( as he was ) to produce the classic restaurant curry. He feels bad about not making at least some of his material available so he is sending a suggestion to Stew via email.
Thanks again
Vivienne

Lets Talk Curry / bruce edwards

« on: May 17, 2008, 03:05 PM »

I am married to Bruce who has been mentioned on this site from time to time. I am going to try to answer some of the questions that have been asked.
First of all , yes, Bruce does visit this site but has good reasons for not posting here: it`s quite simply that he knows that anything he posted would almost certainly appear elsewhere under another name. (Curry House Cookery was turned with some changes into an ebook by a wellknown curry author and sold under a pseudonym. Material from the first series was used by someone to win a cookery competition sponsored by one of the big four supermarkets which later marketed the dishes, complete with errors, as ready meals. Material from both series has been used by TV chefs. These are the instances we are aware of.)
It has also been asked why Bruce hasn`t published anything since Curry House Cookery.Well it is not for want of trying. He has spent a lot of time perfecting methods and quantifying recipes. At one time he was making a (4ltr)pot of sauce most days. Once when trying toeliminate an unwanted flavour he made 4 pots in one day!
The object has been to understand and document methods rather than simply list recipes, to demonstrate how virtually any restaurant dish can be produced at home and to deconstruct and analyse any unfamiliar dish with a view to reproducing it.
All of this has been written up in a book which has been revised over time and also a series of magazine articles.
Just over a year ago he contacted nearly 30 publishers with this material. They all reected it saying either there was no market for this sort of thing or that the market was saturated.Agents were no more help as they were not prepared to take on an unpublished unknown author. For the time being then it`s stalemate.
So Bruce will not be appearing on this site. I will attempt to answer any questions if I can but my time is limited so please don`t expect an immediate response and please don`t request any recipes.
One last thing- we would like to apologise to anyone who wrote to Bruce c/o the Curry Magazine and didn`t receive a reply. This was simply because not one letter was forwarded to him.
I will try to visit the site again in the next week or so.
Vivienne

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