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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/29/2004 : 11:54:28
This is a thread dedicated to that great staple of the British diet, Indian food. Its quite possible that Britain has the best curry outside of the Indian subcontinent.
Although I don't take my curry crazy hot, I can appreciate Indian food in all its shapes and forms, from crispy, delicious poppadoms with mango chutney and raita, to your tasty biryani with a sag aloo side.
Nans of every sort, pilau rice, bhuna, balti and Bangldeshi nagar, from Korma to Phal, from Passanda to Jalfrezi, Indian food rules.
Wax lyrical, my friends.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 01/12/2005 : 04:29:10
Oh dear Simon, what have you done?
I spent a lifespan with no cellmate |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 01/12/2005 : 04:07:05
quote:
Originally posted by Tre
Jesus, I'm not making this up I promise you. Birmingam is where Indian take out food and restraunts started in this country.
Not true. My granny visited the first Indian restaurant in the UK... in London.
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
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| BLT |
Posted - 01/11/2005 : 16:06:20
Excellent news for us:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=7234821
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The pigment that gives curry spice its yellow hue may also be able to break up the "plaques" that mark the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, early research suggests.
Scientists found that curcumin, a component of the yellow curry spice turmeric, was able to reduce deposits of beta-amyloid proteins in the brains of elderly lab mice that ate curcumin as part of their diets.
In addition, when the researchers added low doses of curcumin to human beta-amyloid proteins in a test tube, the compound kept the proteins from aggregating and blocked the formation of the amyloid fibers that make up Alzheimer's plaques.
Accumulation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
The new findings suggest that curcumin could be capable of both treating Alzheimer's and lowering a person's risk of developing the disease, said study co-author Dr. Gregory M. Cole of the University of California Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
Cole and his colleagues have gotten funding to begin a small trial in humans suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
"The big question is how high are the doses we need to fight Alzheimer's and are they really safe in elderly patients?" he told Reuters Health.
The current findings, published online recently by the Journal of Biological Chemistry, add to the body of research pointing to curcumin's medicinal value. Long used as part of traditional Indian medicine, curcumin is now under study as a potential cancer therapy, and animal research has suggested the compound might serve as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis.
Interest in curcumin as an Alzheimer's therapy grew after studies found low rates of the disease among elderly adults in India, where curry spice is a dietary staple.
Curcumin is structurally similar to a stain known as Congo red, which is used by pathologists to identify amyloid protein in autopsied brain tissue in order to confirm a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease after a patient's death.
Curcumin can also stain amyloid deposits, Cole said, but it has the additional ability, when eaten or injected, to cross into a living animal's brain and bind to amyloid deposits.
What's more, he explained, curcumin is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent, and it appears to counter the oxidative damage and inflammation that arises in response to amyloid accumulation.
"It attacks both the amyloid and the response to amyloid," Cole said.
Because oxidative damage and inflammation mark a number of diseases of aging - such as arthritis and the buildup of plaques in the heart's arteries - Cole said he and his colleagues hope that curcumin eventually proves useful for a range of age-related conditions.
SOURCE: Journal of Biological Chemistry, online Dec. 7, 2004. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 10:11:37
Haha, funnily enough I was thinking of him when I posted that.
Oh dear, what have I said? I mean 'cos he likes Mexican food. You know. Food. Mexican. Oh dear.
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| BLT |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 08:31:24
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Pah, it's not as good as Mexican.
Until now I thought floop and HPM were two different people. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 05:31:17
Pah, it's not as good as Mexican.
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| n/a |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 05:29:26
Balti nerd you bitch, and it's INDIAN FOOD you can't be too picky
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/27/2004 : 11:28:05
Curry nerd!
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| n/a |
Posted - 12/26/2004 : 08:55:56
Jesus, I'm not making this up I promise you. Birmingam is where Indian take out food and restraunts started in this country. There's no loyalty to region here, it's just a fact. And when most of you say you like curry in many cases you actually mean balti, I don't think it classes as proper curry as it is not much like the Indian version of the meal. For example the oh so popular tikka masala was invented in Edinburgh. Traditionally (as in in Birmingham) your food is served to you in a balti dish, no plate, no spooning from dish to plate, eaten straight from dish with the aid of a naan bread. This often results in (if you could see my arms!) small curved burn marks from the top of the dish (I have a couple) and yellow fingers the day after but it's really the best way to eat it.
Look:
It was an imaginitive restaurateur who, by establishing a Balti
restaurant in, of all places, Birmingham England, a few years ago,
put Balti cooking on the map. It took off in a big way, and just 10
years later there are no less than 100 Balti houses in Birmingham
alone, with dozens more springing up all over the UK, and sweeping
the British Isles in the way that tandoori did two decades ago.
Taken from The Balti Curry Cookbook
and:
If you’ve visited Birmingham before, you probably already know all about humble Balti dish. Originating from its more famous relative the “Curry”, Balti cookery is now undoubtedly the nations favourite dish, but its history is still stooped in intrigue and folklore. Some claim it’s the cuisine from “Baltistan”, an ancient city in Pakistan, while others say it’s a dish produced by 1st generation UK Curry chefs. Either way, one thing for sure is that its rapidly been accepted across the UK (and increasingly Europe) as the darling of the peoples tastebuds – the Peoples Champion. You can now find balti restaurants from Cardiff to Copenhagen and everywhere in between!
Officially "discovered" in Birmingham’s "Balti Triangle" in 1976. the Balti dish has swept into the taste buds of the nation by tailoring its appeal for a much wider clientele. Fortunately, the focus of this world famous dish remains within Birmingham’s’ Balti Triangle..
So when I say Birmingham is the heart of UK Balti I mean it.
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| Newo |
Posted - 12/26/2004 : 05:55:36
The finest curry I've had was a Thai green somewhere in London made soup of my intestines but don't regret a mouthful.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/25/2004 : 18:23:58
If anything Tre, surely it would be Bradford?
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| n/a |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 16:12:56
Birmingham you fools. UK heart of Balti
Frank Black ate my hamster |
| NimrodsSon |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 15:14:27
I'm eating Indian food tonight, can't wait!
¡Viva los Católicos! |
| floop |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 14:19:14
looking forward to sampling some of this.. in.. 4 days
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 13:54:50
I didn't try the Indian food while in Manchester breifly. I must try it. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 13:43:35
Sod London, Rusholme or 'The Curry Mile' in Manchester is the best.
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 13:08:20
Naan IS excelent. You guys in London are so lucky. The best Indian food in the planet. You don't know how lucky you are. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 12:00:32
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Originally posted by bumblebeeboy2
can't beat the curry mile! fantastically cheap and tonnes of curry houses! rusholme me do!
The Monkey Helper has arrived http://www.monkeyhelper.co.uk (that is my band)
I hear ya Simon. We should go for one sometime.
I am not really into the really hot ones, I prefer to taste my food. Quite a fan of the creamy ones, but then I love dairy. Naan bread is delicious too. It's pretty much all good. Them Indians sure know how to cook.
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| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 07:25:28
FB.Net against Spitalfields Development!!!!
Now I do as I please and lie through my teeth. Someone might get hurt but it won't be me. I should probably feel cheap but I just feel free and a little bit empty. No it isn't so hard to get close to me. There will be no arguments. We will always agree. And I will try and be kind when I ask you to leave. We will both take it easy. But if you stay too long inside my memory, I will trap you in a song tied to a melody and I will keep you there so you can't bother me. |
| edwina |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 07:15:05
I signed the petition too- it is really disgusting, as if there weren't enough chains already around. |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 06:45:57
cheers simon
oh god. it looks awful, what theyre proposing to do.
Ive signed the petition any way.
Now I do as I please and lie through my teeth. Someone might get hurt but it won't be me. I should probably feel cheap but I just feel free and a little bit empty. No it isn't so hard to get close to me. There will be no arguments. We will always agree. And I will try and be kind when I ask you to leave. We will both take it easy. But if you stay too long inside my memory, I will trap you in a song tied to a melody and I will keep you there so you can't bother me. |
| Scarla O |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 06:36:43
I've checked out the website www.smut.org.uk (Spitalfields Market Under Threat) and it seems that now they are "applying to build large glass blocks inside open market space, reducing the space for stalls and converting the market into a high-rent eating and drinking complex."
In a way this might be worse than having offices built there...who needs another soulless corporate shopping centre in London?
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 06:30:56
I'll keep an eye out Mel.
I'm actually curry right now - we have a campus 2 minutes walk from Brick Lane. Unadulterated joy!
 "4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 05:42:10
quote:
Originally posted by Scarla O
I like Spitalfields but apparently they're in the process of closing it down...for bleedin' office space 
They arent!!!!! Tell they aren't! good lord! i have to go to london very soon, just to go back to the spitalfields! You ever beent o the Spitz venue? very odd layout, i like it in there.
Hey cheesy, dont suppose you'll know when youre uni gets my application?
Now I do as I please and lie through my teeth. Someone might get hurt but it won't be me. I should probably feel cheap but I just feel free and a little bit empty. No it isn't so hard to get close to me. There will be no arguments. We will always agree. And I will try and be kind when I ask you to leave. We will both take it easy. But if you stay too long inside my memory, I will trap you in a song tied to a melody and I will keep you there so you can't bother me. |
| Stuart |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 05:34:08
I fucking love curry, and miss a good old British ruby!
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate! |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 13:25:53
Ahaha, OK, one wasn't bigging oneself up - I meant floop was resident comedy legend.
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
| n/a |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 13:21:43
well that did make me laugh out loud
Frank Black ate my hamster |
| bedrock_barney |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 08:57:28
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
As resident forum comedy guru, I appreciate that.
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?"
ahem...er..
 "I've rejoined the Cult of Ming / Star of favourite childhood movie of 1980" |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 12/04/2004 : 16:06:33
As resident forum comedy guru, I appreciate that.
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
| floop |
Posted - 12/04/2004 : 16:02:06
that was funny
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 12/04/2004 : 15:54:48
Exactly, history of ugly people. He's doing a paper on Canada this week.
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
| floop |
Posted - 12/04/2004 : 15:14:54
history of ugly people?
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 12/01/2004 : 06:09:56
Haha, I have a point of contact... fancy a curry
He's doing UG history.
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
| Scarla O |
Posted - 12/01/2004 : 06:08:38
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Yep, the Met is the one, I work in the Admissions Office near the tube. My lil bro is at Kings though, he's loving it. What do you do there?
What's your brother studying? I look after...exams 
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| n/a |
Posted - 11/30/2004 : 16:13:58
Rita, Euston is no more dangerous than the main tourist areas of London. You and your brood will be quite safe.
However, King's Cross is about a mile away. King's Cross smells like a two-tonne rotting whale. Seriously, I would try and avoid King's Cross if I were you. Think of the kids, man.
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I´ll think of that, well...if I don´t get lost! That´s what usually happens when I´m trying to find some place!
Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena
Se a alma não é pequena.
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