Re: Bagels

Julian Macassey wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 18:38:44 +0100, John Williamson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 09/08/2024 18:10, Julian Macassey wrote:
> >> 	The Bangladeshis have helped improve the cuisine of
> >> Britain.
> >>
> >> 	You could consider chicken tikka masala the British
> >> national dish.
> >>
> > Invented in Bradford, according to many.
> >
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala
> 
> + The origin of the dish is not certain, but many sources attribute
> + it to the South Asian community in Great Britain; some sources
> + cite Glasgow as the city of origin.
> 
> 
> https://globalfoodorigin.com/chicken-tikka-masala-origin/
> 
> + Some assert it sprung up in a Glasgow restaurant, while others
> + trace its roots to traditional Indian cooking techniques.
> 
> https://www.britannica.com/topic/chicken-tikka-masala
> 
> + The dish?s origins are debated. Some believe that it was invented
> + in the 1970s by a Bangladeshi chef in Glasgow, Scotland, who, in
> + order to please a customer, added a mild tomato-cream sauce to his
> + chicken tikka, which is pieces of boneless chicken marinated in
> + yogurt and curry spices and served on a skewer, kebab-style. More
> + likely, it derived from butter chicken, a popular dish in northern
> + India. Some observers have called chicken tikka masala the first
> + widely accepted example of fusion cuisine.

It's not caked in an inch of sugar or burnt to a crisp ("well fired") or dipped 
in batter and deep fried, so it's unlikely to have originated in Glasgow.