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Did you know it is also National Curry Week this week?
It is actually the 19th National Curry Week! http://www.nationaleatingoutweek.com/
The (London) Metro ran a featured 15 Vegan Curries page http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/10/15-delicious-vegan-curry-recipes-for-national-curry-week-2016-6171520/ which I will take a closer look at shortly.
And from the Awareness Days website - https://www.awarenessdays.co.uk/awareness-days-calendar/national-curry-week/
"Okay so this could possibly be the most amazing week of the whole year, as between the 10th and 16th of October we are not only celebrating Chocolate Week, but National Curry week as well! Heaven!
As well as paying homage to the amazing Curry (and chocolate of course), by eating as much of the stuff as is humanly possible the whole week long, I will also be putting together a few random facts on why we Brits love the good old curry so much. That way I can rest assured that I’ve really broadened my horizons on the subject with all of the extensive research (eating) that I plan to do!
If you want to join in, why not make your own curry to celebrate this delicious occasion.
1.The earliest known curry was made in Mesopotamia in around 1700BC.
2.The origin of the word ‘curry’ comes from ‘kari’, the Tamil word for ‘spiced sauce’.
3.Chilli is the most popular spice in the world and can help combat heart attacks and strokes and extends blood coagulation times, preventing harmful blood clots.
4.Korma is a greatly misunderstood curry. Korma is “slow cooking or braising” rather than meaning a mild curry as it has become accepted in Britain. It can actually be very mild or fiery hot, with rich ingredients.
5.Over 70,000 staff are employed by the more than 9,000 Indian Curry Restaurants in the UK and, in fact, in London there is a greater number of Indian Restaurants than there are in Bombay and Delhi combined!
6.Two thirds of all meals out in the UK are Indian Food and this is worth 3.2 billion pounds a year!
7.Before it referred to food, ‘curry’ meant a way to prepare leather or the parts of an animal slain in a hunt that were given to the hounds.
8.A record tower of 1,280 poppadum's was piled up in Northampton to celebrate Curry Week in 2012. It was 5ft 8ins high.
9.The first recipe in English “To make a curry the India way” was in Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery published in 1747.
10.Japanese curry is one of the most popular dishes in Japan, where people eat it an average of 62 times a year. Curry was first introduced to Japan by the British in the 1870s."
It is actually the 19th National Curry Week! http://www.nationaleatingoutweek.com/
The (London) Metro ran a featured 15 Vegan Curries page http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/10/15-delicious-vegan-curry-recipes-for-national-curry-week-2016-6171520/ which I will take a closer look at shortly.
And from the Awareness Days website - https://www.awarenessdays.co.uk/awareness-days-calendar/national-curry-week/
"Okay so this could possibly be the most amazing week of the whole year, as between the 10th and 16th of October we are not only celebrating Chocolate Week, but National Curry week as well! Heaven!
As well as paying homage to the amazing Curry (and chocolate of course), by eating as much of the stuff as is humanly possible the whole week long, I will also be putting together a few random facts on why we Brits love the good old curry so much. That way I can rest assured that I’ve really broadened my horizons on the subject with all of the extensive research (eating) that I plan to do!
If you want to join in, why not make your own curry to celebrate this delicious occasion.
1.The earliest known curry was made in Mesopotamia in around 1700BC.
2.The origin of the word ‘curry’ comes from ‘kari’, the Tamil word for ‘spiced sauce’.
3.Chilli is the most popular spice in the world and can help combat heart attacks and strokes and extends blood coagulation times, preventing harmful blood clots.
4.Korma is a greatly misunderstood curry. Korma is “slow cooking or braising” rather than meaning a mild curry as it has become accepted in Britain. It can actually be very mild or fiery hot, with rich ingredients.
5.Over 70,000 staff are employed by the more than 9,000 Indian Curry Restaurants in the UK and, in fact, in London there is a greater number of Indian Restaurants than there are in Bombay and Delhi combined!
6.Two thirds of all meals out in the UK are Indian Food and this is worth 3.2 billion pounds a year!
7.Before it referred to food, ‘curry’ meant a way to prepare leather or the parts of an animal slain in a hunt that were given to the hounds.
8.A record tower of 1,280 poppadum's was piled up in Northampton to celebrate Curry Week in 2012. It was 5ft 8ins high.
9.The first recipe in English “To make a curry the India way” was in Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery published in 1747.
10.Japanese curry is one of the most popular dishes in Japan, where people eat it an average of 62 times a year. Curry was first introduced to Japan by the British in the 1870s."
