Book Recommendation: Curry - Lizzie Collingham

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Curry: A tale of Cooks and Conquerers by Lizzie Collingham.

I have just finished reading this, and it is so good I am going to get my own copy (I had it from the library).

Not only does it give an excellent, readable, history of how curry came to be curry, where it came from and how it spread around the world (I also really reccommend the chapter on tea, of course ;-)), but it comes with 20 recipies!

The general background history of India is interesting too, and relevant to the history of curry. I also had some food relationships pointed out to me that I really should have realised (such as pilau=paella)

Warning, reading it might make you hungry though...