CURRY: A TALE OF COOKS AND CONQUERORS
by COLLINGHAM, LIZZIE
List Price: HK$ 144.00
¡@ISBN
9780099437864
¡@Subject
ASIA
¡@Publisher
VINTAGE UK
¡@Publication
2006
¡@Edition
Paperback
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
In Curry, the first authoritative history on Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion of different food traditions. We see how the arrival of the Portuguese and the Mughal horde introduced the cooking styles and ingredients of central Asia and Europe to the subcontinent and how over the centuries they mixed with traditional Indian food to produce today¡¦s popular cuisine. Collingham also describes how Indian food has spread around the world, from curry houses of London to the first Kosher Indian restaurant in Manhattan. Richly spiced with colorful anecdotes, curious historical facts and attractive illustrations, maps, and recipes, Curry is vivid and entertaining¡Xa feast for all food lovers.
