Topic: Curry - Story of the Nation's Favourite Dish

[SnS]

I'm reading a book I picked up during the weekend titled "Curry - Story of the Nation's Favourite Dish" by Shrabani Basu. Reprinted in 2003.

I've only just started reading it but it's full of interesting facts and figures.

EG:
1) Marks & Spencers sells over 18 tonnes of Chicken Tikka Masala each week.
2) Each year 2 Billion pound is spent in Indian restaurants (70 quid a second)
3) Two Indian restaurants in London have Michelin stars
4) A group of 10 Scottish football fans in Bordeaux became so homesick for curry they ordered a takeaway from the Eye of The Tiger in Bournemouth - delivered cost to Bordeaux was 1,400 quid. (you weren't one of them, were you Bobby?)

Has anyone else read this book?

SnS  ;D

[SnS]

Essential reading for all BIR fanatics.

The soft cover book is available from Amazon here (2005 version).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curry-Story-Nations-Favourite-Dish/dp/0750933755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202862284&sr=1-1

and hard cover (2003 version) here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curry-Story-Nations-Favourite-Dish/dp/0750933747/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202865177&sr=1-2

SnS  ;D

[Bobby Bhuna]

A group of 10 Scottish football fans in Bordeaux became so homesick for curry they ordered a takeaway from the Eye of The Tiger in Bournemouth - delivered cost to Bordeaux was 1,400 quid. (you weren't one of them, were you Bobby?)

Thank God no! ?140 a head!!!!! They should have got a recipe from here.
Still, at that cost, you'd hope they got the order right!!!

[Domi]

?1400?!?! they must have supped a heckuva lot of buckfast that day

and BB can't have been one of them......he dropped a pound coin last week and when he bent down to pick it up, it hit him on the back of the head :

[Chris303]

If you have never tried Buckfast curry you should give it a try 

[Domi]

LOL I've never seen any this far south of Glasgow Cross Chris

Is it as tasty as a deep-fried kebab?

[Chris303]

You need to delve into the "Buckfast Triangle" to sample it. Which the capital is Monklands (Airdrie & Coatbridge). Me being from Airdrie I have of course tried it. Need to try make it - I make a nice curry with a splash of red wine, so it should just be a case of a splash of that and reducing it a little.