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Originally posted by Scunner
Yes, my local Indian isn't cooking traditional Perth authentic curries either. They say the recipes are from India.
Tell you what folks, nearly all Indian food served in UK Restauarants is not authentic and most of it is crap! Very few real ones outside of Rusholme in Manchester, the famous "curry mile", or Southall near London. You get the odd one, such as a place I know in Glasgow, but most are a mish mash serving anglicised stuff and non-indian at all such as Tikka massala -- nobody in India will ever have heard of it! They are mainly Bangladeshi run and hash slinging rubbish! (I can say that cos my wife is Indian and I know what proper Indian food should tatse like and how it is cooked!)
I guess Turkish food is much the same, if it is cooked right to genuine recipes then it deserves the title, no matter where that may be. If we want to be that pedantic then what is Turkish food? It is derived from the ancient Kingdoms of the Middle Sea and Persian Empire, the taste of all those Counties is in it, from the Persian Rice through Levantine and Arabian breads to the Honey flavoured sweets of the meditterannean and North Africa.
For me, the absolute delight of Turkish Food is just that, it encomp-asses so many of the places I have lived in and loved, it is the Middle Sea on a plate, from Spain round in a Circle to Morroco and reaching out inland as far as Turkmenistan and beyond. Hundreds of years of fklavour and experimentation!
Yes, a foodie, I confess all --
