I am in need of help. I need to understand curry pastes, what makes the difference in various curries, what the ingredients and quantities of various curries are and general advice. I live in Colchester and can afford to pay a good indian cook (low hundreds I am hoping) to instruct me. I may well have some knowck on work for the person as well. Can anyone help?

Hi Lenz,

You don't need to pay anything out. If you take a little time on this website, it will show you everything you need to know to be able to produce excellent curries for free......

If there is knock on work, then you can claim that yourself

Enjoy the website!!

Other than that your best option would be to go straight to your favourite Curry house and ask the resident Chef to do it for you. He'll still want paying but at least you'll be getting one on one instruction. You would be surprised but most Chef's would offer to help you, everybody likes to make a few quid on the side.
The other option would be to ask at the local food college for a curry course, most do them.
Finally there's doing as 976bar suggested and learning from here from scratch. There are some excellent recipes here, but like most things in life you only really learn from doing.
Most people here have spent years making curries, we all have learnt a lot from the time and effort they have put in.
Hope this has helped.

Thanks for the advice. I am sure you are right. I could and possibly would learn a lot from the site. In fact i will breeze through to see how easy it is.

Plainly not doing this correctly but thanks to you too PeterandJen. Good advice and certainly worth considering but as above this is a commercial venture and conflicts with my local indian although i guess i could go to another town. Urrm.