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SirSassyCat t1_j88ju99 wrote

Reply to comment by Nanojack in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone

What do you mean? Most of what the west currently calls Indian stems from victorian era England.

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futurespice t1_j890d6m wrote

Most of what you can find in Indian restaurants in "the west" are fairly generic north Indian dishes like butter chicken, saag paneer etc.

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SirSassyCat t1_j8al3bu wrote

Which were all created in Britain. Butter chicken isn't a dish that actually exists in India.

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futurespice t1_j8ambu9 wrote

You're maybe thinking of tandoori masala (now actually not so uncommon in India). Saag paneer, tandoori chicken, and butter chicken absolutely do exist in India and have for some time.

I think it's fair to say many dishes we think of as traditional Indian cuisine are tied to colonialism in general due to use of non native ingrédients such as chili peppers or tomato, sure, but not that it all originates from the UK.

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verylittleinsight t1_j8guqom wrote

Hey mate I'm an Anglo chef that once thought that, too.

At this point we basically just need to dip our hats to India and add a pint of cream or tomatoes to whatever they thought of first.

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