Picture by Jessica Ridgewell
I’ve had a soft spot for Cyrus Todiwala since I interviewed him donkey’s years ago for a TV feature on the Asian and Oriental catering school he helped set up in Hoxton in London. Continue reading
Monkfish Tikka
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Tag Archives: Indian food
Butter Chicken: The Vish Puri Version
I missed a trick recently. A friend of ours, the talented Mr Tarquin Hall, is the author of a hugely entertaining series of books about a plump, food-obsessed Indian detective called Vish Puri.
Vish’s third published outing was The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken, Continue reading
The Bhaji Man
Don at home in his Norfolk kitchen
Most people, faced with forcible retirement at the age of 70, would look forward gratefully to a well-earned rest.
Not Don Lear. He started a new business. Continue reading
Butter Chicken
I’m a pushover for cookery books and when my good friend Karon told me she’d made the best curry she’d ever eaten from Rick Stein’s latest, it was a no-brainer, especially as I’d just been watching the TV series. I was straight onto Amazon. Continue reading