Curry

Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented, discovered, cooked and ate them.

Marvellous and well-illustrated...based on exhaustive research and full of intriguing nuggets of information

A beautifully balanced book, melding historical fact with modern anecdotes... It's the definitive history of curry

Fascinating and meticulously researched... layers historical fact with mouth-watering dinner table gossip of maharajah's epicurean excesses

Original and highly entertaining

Lizzie Collingham taught History at Warwick University and was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge before becoming an independent historian. Her books include Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors and The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food . She is currently an Associate Fellow of Warwick University and the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She recently completed a project researching the history of the kitchens of the Indian President’s palace and regularly lectures on a gastronomic tour of Kerala. She works in a garden shed near Cambridge.