Great news.  And I guess we have discovered "Yank Repellent" too! Just bring out the curry.

Any kind of quality foodstuff will probably do the trick . No, seriously, I'm sure there is good food to be had in the States, without excessive sugar in - though on a flight from New York to Denver a while ago, I had to laugh when I looked at the salt packet that came with my "lunch" and it said "contains dextrose" . No, seriously: apart from that appalling curry, all the food I had in New Orleans was awesome.

Sugar in the Salt??? OMG.

Well, it was 11 years ago - probably they don't do that any more (makes the salt too expensive ).

Quote from: Princess of Hearts on September 03, 2011, 02:06:16 PM
I have just eaten a nice Chicken Tikka Biryani from Sainsburys, and it got me thinking.  All the years that I have been online, I've noticed that Americans never mention curry.  There is not even the slightest, most distant, reference to curry.   Do you have curry in America?   Is it proper Indian curry?  Do you eat curry more than once a year?

My Southern English cousins won't touch curry, or any type of Indian or Chinese food.  In fact all foreign food is suspect as far as they are concerned.  Even continental food is dismissed as 'foreign muck'.

I love curry chicken, and I have Red Dwarf to thank for piquing my interest in Indian food. While there are Indian restaurants around where I live, we just can never find time to go.

New Orleans is awesome.  So too SF in a different way.  LA and NYC in other ways.  Ann O's Texas got some mighty good eating too.  Matter of fact Tex-Mex is up there with Chinese, Italian and French cuisines world wide in terms of popularity,  (though I shutter to think of getting anything like that outside the American Southwest).

Really, who is going to listen to anyone from Britannia talk about food?  You might have ruled the waves, but you sunk like a stone in the kitchen.   It's about the only culture that seem to be 100% unable to export anything resembling a cuisine.  And really the Jews got Gefilte fish in and the Swedes got other people eating that lutefisk crap, so bangers and mash and Yorkshire pudding, and other things too horrible to mention really, rate somewhere below gefilte/lutefisk.  Yumm-O.

You have tea, but that's not really English, though the entire ritual of it is.

Quote from: tekla on September 13, 2011, 01:08:38 PM
gefilte/lutefisk.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.  And strangely, it tasted better than either of those two.

Oh, c'mon now - "we"^* gave the world Spotted Dick!

^*I grew up being told I wasn't British, I was Jewish, so I can't be held culturally responsible for any BritCuisine ... and I never liked Jewish food much either. Of course, I've just eaten a goddamn enormous plate of chips [aka Freedom Fries], so...

Down in the Caribbean on the island I live on, curry is huge. We have a Roti shop (ACE) All Curry eaters, that has traditional Indian roti with a Trinidadian flare (peppers). I eat there once a week. You all probably know that curry is a mixture of spices like  coriander, turmeric, cumin, fenugreek, and red pepper . Turmeric and Curcumin are from the same plant and are used medicinally as anti-inflammatory herbs in Ayurvedic medicine.

This thread giving me a raging food horn.

Now I'm making some weird associative connexion in my mind between the unicorn forest and fusion cuisine .

I love curry! I don't know if it's "proper Indian" curry that I've eaten, but it's one of my favorite dishes.

Hulud, as long as the cook doesn't use "Curry Powder" you are probably heading in the right direction.