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Curry is curry due to it containing tumeric, and tumeric is native to India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric
by basicplus2 6y ago
Curry is curry due to it containing tumeric, and
tumeric is native to India.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric
- diroussel 6y agoGinger and turmeric look very similar. It seems that ginger came from south-east Asia. https://www.motherearthliving.com/natural-health/know-your-spice-a-brief-history-of-ginger https://www.motherearthliving.com/natural-health/know-your-s... Interesting that it was not mentioned in the older recipes in the article.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoYou may as well say curry is curry because it has cumin in it, and cumin is native to India. Curry is really just a word made up by non-Indians to describe spicy gravy, or depending on who you ask, it can be used to describe any sufficiently spiced food. If you google curry potatoes, you’ll find plenty of recipes. If you google jeera aloo (which literally just translates to cumin potato) you’ll find plenty of very similar recipes. You can also find plenty of recipes for Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian... curries, and the only thing they have in common with Indian curries is use of spice and a gravy textured sauce, but using completely different spice bases and cooking techniques.
- newyankee 6y agoyes, i think it is not used so much in other Asian cuisines
- esperent 6y agoNot so. It's named after the Tamil word kari which means a dish eaten with rice and flavored with curry leaves (kari patta).