“It’s kind of like: who invented chicken noodle soup?” says Leena Trivedi-Grenier, a freelance food writer who probed the various origin claims in 2017. “It’s a dish that could’ve been invented by any number of people at the same time.”
“How do you colonize and enslave an entire country for a century and then claim that one of their dishes is from your own country?”
Still possible it was created by the South Asian diaspora in Britain but there’s a reason the likes of Nigel Farage want CTM “remigrated” and not so for the likes of Shephard’s Pie or Yorkshire Pudding.
The British claiming tikka masala is like NYC claiming pizza.
It’s quite well established that it’s a British dish. Curry in general isn’t, but Tikka masala is. It’s like Canada claiming Pizza Hawaii.
Its not so clear cut: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1145119758/who-created-chicken-tikka-masala-the-death-of-a-curry-king-is-reviving-a-debate
“It’s kind of like: who invented chicken noodle soup?” says Leena Trivedi-Grenier, a freelance food writer who probed the various origin claims in 2017. “It’s a dish that could’ve been invented by any number of people at the same time.”
“How do you colonize and enslave an entire country for a century and then claim that one of their dishes is from your own country?”
Still possible it was created by the South Asian diaspora in Britain but there’s a reason the likes of Nigel Farage want CTM “remigrated” and not so for the likes of Shephard’s Pie or Yorkshire Pudding.