a small, but interesting, food story came my way today.
In the later part of her reign (late 1900s) , Queen Victoria had a teacher from India called Abdul Karim. They became very close, he lived in the palace and taught her to read and write in Urdu and Hindi.
He also introduced her to curry, although my sources don't tell me exactly what sort of curry that was.
She loved it, and
Curry was on the menu at the Palace every day.
I wonder how much this influenced the British love of curry which continues today
That's interesting. The curry lineage continued, it would seem, with "Jubilee Chicken" - a dish created for the silver jubilee of George V in 1935. And that was possibly the inspiration for "Coronation Chicken" for the coronoation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Both recipes contain curry spice.
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