“Curry” does not exist in India. The generic term was coined by the British colonizers, perhaps as an Anglicization of the Tamil word “kari”, which translates directly to “a cooked vegetable or meat”. And yet, in a column published recently in this magazine, Gene Weingarten slashed the food of an entire country – with over a billion people, millions of expats, 28 states, eight Union Territories and 22 official languages - to: “If you like Indian curries, yeah, you like Indian food!” He then dismissed Indian cuisine as “the only ethnic cuisine in the world based entirely on one spice,” by which he meant curry – a statement so incorrect that it reveals a shocking lack of knowledge about food and cooking in the world. as integer.
