Curry and Empire

In discussing English cuisine the other day -- while I was swallowing an awful English soup -- my friend Michi said, "Bad food is necessary for empire."

I concurred. If the English hadn't been able to offer great curries overseas that were vastly superior to domestic fare, how would they have ever gotten colonial administrators to go to India?

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