Re: Bagels

On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 09:50:57 +0100, Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

	It was an immigrant from Banngladesh who came uo with the
idea, no doubt in a vain attempt to impprove the diet of
Glaswegians.


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