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| Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish | |
| Author: | Shrabani Basu |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Food |
| Pub Date: | 1999 |
| Pages: | 206 |
| Isbn: | 978-8172233471 |
Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish is a book written by Shrabani Basu.[1] [2] It was originally published in India in 1999, and later published in the United Kingdom under the title Curry: The Story of the Nation's Favourite Dish. The book discusses how Indian food became a million dollar business in the United Kingdom.
Tunku Varadarajan, writing in India Today, said that the history of Indian food in the United Kingdom was a compelling story. However he called Basu's book "shoddily written and mind-bogglingly banal", offering "no anthropological insights, few historical perspectives, no literary conspectus, little sociological research".[3]