Curry Club Magazine

Curry Club Magazine

The Curry Magazine is a printed periodical publication published by The Curry Club, England, and is the world’s only consumer magazine exclusively devoted to the subject of curry and the ‘curry lands’.

It was founded in January 1982 by Pat Chapman, and was distributed by mail to subscribing members of the Curry Club. 68 editions have currently been published. It recently transferred to electronic transmission, although from time to time, printed editions will continue to be published.

Contents

Content

The magazine delivers facts, fun and features; in fact anything and everything to do with spicy food and curry. Regular content includes recipes, cooking features and tips, restaurant reviews, biographies on relevant persons, alive or deceased, and on chefs and restaurateurs, wine pairings, travel and tourism information, and historical pieces. Its remit is to cover Asian cuisine i.e. South Asian cuisine (including Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Nepalese and Sri Lankan cuisines).

It also includes occasional input on other exotic and spicy cuisines such as those of Imperial Chinese cuisine, modern Japanese, Korean and “Southeast Asian” cuisine which includes that of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, plus other areas such as Africa, the Caribbean, Tex Mex, Mexico, and Latin America

Authority

The Curry Magazine has always striven to produce definitive and accurate facts. Its readership of gourmet readers expect and get sophisticated content enabling them to build a wide repertoire of recipes and knowledge, aided by contributions from the public and professionals alike, which are original, popular and authoritative. This is evidenced by the magazine's supply of source material. For example when the Oxford English Dictionary [1] established the origins of the word Balti, it says: “The winter 1984 issue of the Curry Magazine contains the first printed evidence the OED has for 'balti'. But where the term comes from (India, Pakistan — perhaps Baltistan) remains something of a mystery at present. They say it first appeared in the Birmingham area in the early 80s.”

Curry Magazines are collectable, and back numbers have been known to sell at auction for surprising sums.

See also

Bibliography

  • India: Food & Cooking, New Holland, London — ISBN 978-1845376192 (2007)
  • The Curry Magazine, Curry Club, Haslemere — ISSN 0263-9866

References

  1. ^ http://www.oed.com/bbc-series1/list.html

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