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So... 'The Philosophy of Curry', huh?

Before I started writing my book, I asked a bunch of philosophers the all-important question; here's what they had to say:

WHAT IS CURRY?
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Confucius: Ask your elders.

Lao-Tzu: Look inside yourself to find the answer.

Socrates: I’m keen to debate this, but I won’t write anything down.

Plato: It is to be perceived beyond perception.

Aristotle: It is… just a matter of perception.
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Aquinas: All I know is that it exists.

Machiavelli: Something to be loved and feared – but mostly feared.

Descartes: It is, therefore it is.

Locke: It’s a blank canvas on which you can put your own spin.

Hume: It’s what you feel it is.
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Rousseau: It’s something a child should be educated on from an early age.

Kant: Let’s examine different perspectives and come to an understanding of what it is.

Emerson: It’s what you believe it is.

Stuart Mill: Free speech is necessary to discuss what it is.
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Kierkegaard: It’s what you choose it to be.

Marx: A capitalist luxury that must be overthrown.

Nietzsche: It’s totally meaningless.

Wittgenstein: It depends on how the meaning of the word is socially constructed.

Sartre: It simply is.
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Foucault: A mechanism for keeping society under control.

NO PHILOSOPHERS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF MY BOOK.

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1/14 A mostly lighthearted history of trends in London’s Indian restaurant names.

London’s Indian restaurants started springing up in earnest a century after the Hindoostane Coffee House of 1810, so that’s where I’ll start.

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2/ The earliest Indian restaurants of 1920s were what we would now call 'pop-ups', one of which was called Curry House. Perhaps the name stuck and it’s the reason why South Asian restaurants went on to be called curry houses? Who knows.
3/ The first restaurants in the early 20th century had mostly Anglo-Indian names like... literally, Anglo India (there was also an Anglo Pakistan after the partition).
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