what nation invented curry?

Question

i know that obviously your going to say india or thailand blah blah blah! but im @ work and we are having a debate wether it was the British empire " invented " it because spices preserved the meat.

Answer 1

I have no idea but your work must not be that busy to have time for debates like this!

Answer 2

The British invented the word "curry" to describe Indian food, they were probably mispronouncing the word "kari", a kind of leaf that is often dried & ground for use in creating spice mixtures in certain parts of India. But people all over Asia were making spice mixtures to cook with long before the British came to bother them!

Answer 3

A curry is any of a variety of distinctively spiced dishes, best-known in Indian, Thai, Malaysia and other South Asian cuisines, but curry has been adopted into all of the mainstream cuisines of the Asia-Pacific area. Along with tea, curry is one of the few dishes or drinks that is truly "pan-Asian", but specifically, its roots come from India. Curry was later brought to the West by British colonialists in India from the 18th century.

Answer 4

I doubt if the English invented Curry!!! The Indians have had all natural spices growing in their country for years and it would be a natural tendency for them to try different herbs in their food. Yjr British discovered that salt preserved meat and sailors used to use it so prevent scurvy but other spices .....no way!!!! By the way Indians dont use the term "curry"....curry is the name of a totally different dish made of chick pea flour and called kharhi so the word curry is a derivation of that word. the kharhi by the way is a vegetarian dish so the question of preseving meat doesnt come into the picture there.

Answer 5

Indians would not call their food curry before the British Empire, but that doesn't mean the British invented it. However, dishes like Tikka Masala are British inventions; inspired by the Indians but made to suit the colonialists’ palate. Similarly, Chop Suey is an American invention.

Answer 6

From the eighteenth century, travellers brought back with them a liking for India's national dish. Poet Edward Lear enjoyed a breakfast in India of prawn curry, cold mutton, plantain and bread and butter; Queen Victoria succumbed to the tastes of her far-flung Empire; and retiring ex-colonials and Bangladeshi immigrants alike came to Britain with new recipes and ways of adapting traditional foods for British tastes. The cuisine created wrought a curry revolution.

Answer 7

Of course India!
Just because the British made it famous in the west doesn't mean they are the inventor of the complicated blends of spices.
As for the curry use in the South East Asia (Thai, Malaysia, and Indonesia etc), I'd assume it originated from the export of Indian culture (and immigration) during the period of Indianization in that region (11-13th century).

Answer 8

A curry is any of a variety of distinctively spiced dishes, best-known in Indian, Thai, Malaysia and other South Asian cuisines, but curry has been adopted into all of the mainstream cuisines of the Asia-Pacific area. Along with tea, curry is one of the few dishes or drinks that is truly "pan-Asian", but specifically, its roots come from India.

Curry was later brought to the West by British colonialists in India from the 18th century.

The term curry is derived from kari, (a Tamil word meaning sauce and referring to various kinds of dishes common in South India made with vegetables or meat and usually eaten with rice). However, the term (meaning a stew) is found in English before the arrival of British traders on the Subcontinent, and may simply have been applied by them to dishes which they thought resembled the stews they were used to. Nowadays the term is used more broadly, especially in the Western Hemisphere, to refer to almost any spiced, sauce-based dishes cooked in various south and southeast Asian styles. This imprecise umbrella term is largely a legacy of the British Raj. Curry was originally used to mask the taste of bad meat. Not all curries are made from curry powder; in fact, in India, the word curry is rarely used. Instead, most dishes involving lentils are called dal, or else are referred to by a name specific to the spices used in the preparation. Meat or vegetable dishes are likewise given specific names that indicate the method of cooking, or the particular spices used. There is, however, a particular north Indian and Pakistani dish which is given the name curry or khadi - this involves yoghurt, ghee, and besan

Answer 9

After identifying on myself up off the floor I trust you a hundred% approximately it eating curry having no longer something to do with multiculturalism in basic terms positioned the crap that they feed us in the final public of Indian, chinese language and different eating places isn't genuine. finding on the Indian menu in basic terms shoved in the path of the door I spot Cod Curry!!!! while replaced into there ever a cod in the indian ocean? there is no lentil curry, no pulses - in basic terms crap cuts of meat shoved in a greasy fatty packed with salt sauce and charged at a stupidly severe mark up. And on an analogous time as this is the rationalization i am going with to no longer devour at maximum remote places ran (and maximum British) eating places there are quite a few human beings in this u . s . a . that cant boil and egg and burn toast. the place there's a call for - somebody will supply a supply and since the interior of reach McDonald's has a large sign asserting recruiting now and has performed for the final week or so I cant see the hardworking British teen wanting to artwork in a chinese language or Indian resturant.

Answer 10

no, it was invented in india to cover up the taste of rotten meat. Dont know when it was invented however.
India may have been under the rule of the british empire at the time however so that might be right.

Answer 11

India