How did British affect the cuisine of India?

Question

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Answer 1

A LOT.

Till today, the richer Indians dine and wine like the British. Their status and how they act, talk, and of course, EAT, largely reflects on their colonial past.
The rich has western style British (though nowadays they just take after the Americans since it's the latest trend) living spaces, and they may not be able to take British cuisine (neither can I, its so bland, and porky, and very strange), they have adopted alot of British lifestyle followings, like eating with a fork and a spoon, drinking tea with milk in teacups (just that they add spices, like pepper and stuff to their tea according to their local taste), large colonial-style houses, etc.

Today, many upper-class Indians (which the middle-class try to emulate) have tea time, brunch, and follow the British tea time foods such as scones, cakes, etc, of course, it depends on the family whether it'd be indianised scones and cakes (meaning they put spices in that as well if they like).

However, I'd like to add that both have influenced one another immensely. Britain is practically India right now, with the large influx of Indians and the number of Indian immigrants in it.


Jenova

Answer 2

Not much except that many Indians now think eating bread-omelet(or jam/butter) for breakfast is symbol of sophistication.

I think Indian cuisine has affected British cuisine like nothing else did - who can miss all the new words in English dictionary based on Indian food items -eg.curry !!!

Answer 3

I rather doubt they affected it at all. I've never even heard of any Indian tea drinkers. Plus, the Brits are not known for their cuisine. Ever hear of a British/English restaurant that everyone wants to go to?

Answer 4

a great deal they changed a lot of there dishes to suit our tastes like chicken tikka Marsala was a dish they made for the British and is now the fave dish of the UK also raj cuisine

Answer 5

Well, considering they Occupied India until the early to mid 20th century, i'd be surprised if it didn't affect their food culture.

Answer 6

Sorry don't know much about its history but maybe the link will help as a starting point

Answer 7

The effect was probably the other way around. Indian food is good and spicy...British food is....?

Answer 8

i dont know about food, but i know all the indians and pakis love tea with milk because of the british occupation...

Answer 9

alot