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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
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
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Posted - 12/27/2004 : 11:28:05
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Curry nerd!
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Posted - 12/28/2004 : 05:29:26
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Balti nerd you bitch, and it's INDIAN FOOD you can't be too picky
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Homers_pet_monkey
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Posted - 12/28/2004 : 05:31:17
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Pah, it's not as good as Mexican.
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BLT
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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.
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Homers_pet_monkey
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Posted - 12/28/2004 : 10:11:37
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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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Posted - 01/11/2005 : 16:06:20
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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. |
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Cheeseman1000
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Posted - 01/12/2005 : 04:07:05
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
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Posted - 01/12/2005 : 04:29:10
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Oh dear Simon, what have you done?
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