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Mar 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
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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.
Nov 11, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
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.
A thread.
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.
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