History of Curry
What Is Curry? Curry is a generic term for gravy/ sauce-based dishes that include some combination of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, onions, fresh ginger, garlic, and other ingredients. Curry originated in the Indian subcontinent. The word comes from the Indian Tamil word “Kari” meaning a sauce eaten with rice. Curry comprises a mix of these main spices: coriander, turmeric, cumin, and red chili. The origins of curry began before the British arrived in the subcontinent of India in 1608. In fact, to understand the full history, you have to go further back in the colonization timeline to when the Portuguese arrived in India in 1498 and introduced chili. Then came the Dutch in 1605, followed by the French who arrived in South India in 1664, and the new classification of Indian food for non-Indians was defined — it evolved and transformed throughout time. Colonization not only played a critical role in transporting Indian food out of India, it reclassified classic dishes that took on ...