Topic: bruce edwards

[vivienne]

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this sort of thing or that the market was saturated.Agents were no more help as they were not prepared to take on an unpublished unknown author.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

[Unclebuck]

Hi Vivienne,

Thanks for getting touch with us, were not worthy sorry to here its not all good news, don't understand why publishers would not be interested there are not many BIR cook books about or at least not many that are much cop? all the best UB.

[SnS]

Hi Vivienne

Sorry to hear about the book rejection - a real shame as I suspect it would have been exactly what most of us here are looking for. Whilst there may be hundreds of curry cook books (and yes the market is saturated with them), there are almost no books available specific to BIR style cooking. I'm sure Bruce's book would have been a breath of fresh air and something quite different.

Thanks for your post Vivienne. I'm sure any future contributions you make will be greatly appreciated by all members.

SnS ;D

[haldi]

My Gosh
       I don't believe this
I wrote to the Curry Club, to get in touch with Bruce, and got nowhere
I would like to say thank you so much to yourself and Bruce
The second Curry House recipes were the best documented recipes ever to go to print.
I cooked loads of the meals and used the naan recipe and the pre cooked chicken recipe too
I have now had many cooking demos, and have learnt from watching
But if Bruce has any more info, then I would pay for it
Because it's going to be first rate
I was waiting with bated breath for each of the four Curry Club magazines which contained his articles.
I was so sad that he never wrote again
To my mind there still is no "definitive" curry house cook book
I would love Bruce to still do that
Best wishes to you both

[malacara]

Hi Vivienne,

I totally agree with all it has been already said in this post. I would like to add that I am a devoted fan of Bruce Edwards articles and I would pay for any book of him, please keep trying to get the book published.

All the best

[joshallen2k]

Add another one to the "I'd buy it" list.

I use quite of few of Bruce's older recipes. Very curious to see what breakthroughs Bruce has developed since his last publication.

[parker21]

hi vivienne
i am probably his biggest fan! i believe his curryhouse cookery article is a must read for any BIR curry fan even if they never cook the recipes it gives a real insight to how it is done, i have passed on many of his articles to my friends and had very good feedback, i have ccoked many of his recipes and i can say without doubt that is where everything changed for me from just trying to make curries to replicating real bir standard quality curries. i too have had many demos at my local bir restaurant (Rajver) and seen my meals cooked and even cooked a couple myself. but i believe that bruce's commitment tremendous and it is he that should be a millionaire and not the charlatan who is know as the "curry guru"! hope you keep up with the book idea because i would undoubtedly buy one and recommend it to all i dare to meet!( actually gave a copy to a friend who i cooked an entire meal for last friday for it consisted of chicken tikka with salad and mint sauce, 2 chicken tikka masalas, rice,  tescos garlic and coriander naan poppadums bombay potato and mushroom bhaji. i was knackered after that marathon and still cooked a chicken vindaloo and rice with naan for myself and my wife what a night. will post the recipes i used for these dishes as soon as i get the opportunity. my friend is coming round to get the recipe for the mint sauce especially as his wife thought it was fantastic and said it would be good as a salad dressing!
anyway i digress i will try to get hold of a coulpe of people i know in my village who have written books and have contacts an lots of money too! will pm you viviennne if i get any luck( may cost me a meal but it would be worth either the sweat for having to cook it or pain of having to pay for it but if bruce gets to pass on his his knowledge in his name then every drop of sweat would be worth it!

thank you vivienne for getting in touch and above all thank bruce for changing my life!

kind regards
gary

[Curry King]

Hi Vivienne,

Great stuff, I agree with everything else thats been said, Bruce's articles are the best thing in print regarding BIR cooking!

It's a shame Bruce doesn't feel like he could join in with the cr0 community, I'm sure anything he could add would be most welcome and not just recipes.  Unfortunately there are always people who will try and make money of other peoples work, we have had a few come though here so I can understand Bruce's reluctance to post.

Would love to see a book so put me down for one 

cK

[Bobby Bhuna]

Wow, it's great to hear that Bruce has had a look at the forum. I get the impression he must see some of my attempts and cringe!  ;D

I agree with everyone else and would most certainly buy the book.

[rallim]

I to agree with all the comments about Bruce and his recipes....Put me down for a book, in fact put me down for a few hundred so I can hand them into the Indian restaurants around where I now live in Brisbane Australia  :