Even as far back as the early 1940s, the word ‘kari’ was already making its presence felt across the Atlantic, having merged itself into cultures from Guyana to Singapore to Great Britain.
A curry, by definition, is any stew made using Indian spices. The spread of curry set sail on the seas with the conquistadors who marauded the shores of Eastern India around 1498.
They couldn’t find a word to describe it, so they made one up: ‘carel’, taken from the Tamil word ‘kari’.
The British East India Company changed in to the popularly known version it is today. Slowly but steadily this sweet yet pungent smelling broth found its way into the hearts of many a nation and the rest, as the
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