Country India Subject Food Pages 206 Originally published 1999 Page count 206 | Language English Publication date 1999 ISBN 978-8172233471 | |
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Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish is a 1999 book written by Shrabani Basu. The book discusses in detail the growth of the Indian food business in Britain and how it became a million dollar business there. A 1997 Gallup poll of British tastes in food proved that curry, basically an Indian food, was the nation's favourite food with over a quarter of Britons eating it at least once a week.
Reception
Tunku Varadarajan, writing in India Today, argued that the story of the conquest of Britain by Indian food would make a compelling book, but that Shrabani Basu's was not that, being "shoddily written and mind-bogglingly banal", offering "no anthropological insights, few historical perspectives, no literary conspectus, little sociological research".