{"id":6154,"date":"2013-11-11T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/11\/uks-3-6-billion-curry-industry-to-be-celebrated-at-curry-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:36:05","slug":"uks-3-6-billion-curry-industry-to-be-celebrated-at-curry-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/11\/uks-3-6-billion-curry-industry-to-be-celebrated-at-curry-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"UK’s \u00a33.6 billion Curry Industry to be celebrated at Curry Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK\u2019s favourite cuisine will once again be celebrated at the coveted, ninth annual\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0on\u00a0Monday 25th\u00a0November 2013. The industry at large, foodies, celebrities, MP\u2019s and dignitaries will collectively pay homage to the nation\u2019s finest curry restaurants at undisputedly the most lauded event of the UK hospitality sector amid the fitting grandiose of\u00a0Battersea Evolution, London.<\/div>\n

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The UK curry industry boasts 10,000 restaurants and 80,000 employees, and contributes a staggering \u00a33.6billion annually to the economy. As well as being a lucrative mainstay of the economy, the industry has embedded itself in the social, cultural and culinary fabric of the UK, with approximately 25million curries being consumed each week. As a result,\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0has become a key fixture on the UK social calendar, celebrating the achievements of the nation\u2019s most popular culinary genre. In speaking previously at\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0about the gastronomical phenomenon that is the British Curry,\u00a0Heston Blumenthal\u00a0commented,\u00a0\u201cI went to India a few years ago to make a progamme about chicken tikka masala. What I found was that dishes from over here that people would perhaps say are not authentic are now being copied over there.\u201d<\/div>\n

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A pioneer in the UK catering and hospitality sector,\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0has been lauded as a national institution in its own right the first and landmark event to celebrate the industry\u2019s achievements with Prime Minister David Cameron fondly coining the event the Curry Oscars.\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0is eagerly anticipated annually by the industry and restaurateurs alike, with winning restaurants realising lifetime dreams through being awarded.<\/div>\n

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This year’s ceremony will once again welcome a who\u2019s who guest list of celebrities, politicians, dignitaries, business leaders, influencers and, of course, leading names from the UK culinary industry. The gala dinner and award ceremony will be interspersed with top billing entertainment, hosted within a breathtaking setting, making it an event to remember.<\/div>\n

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The nomination process invites members of the public to put forward their favourite Indian eatery for a deserving accolade and the awards continue to draw record number of nominations, proving the industry\u2019s mettle despite a challenging economic climate. This year, a phenomenal 263,000 public nominations have been received via app, email and post, with one restaurant generating 13,000 nominations alone. It is stated that a curry remains the favoured choice of takeaway across the nation, overtaking stalwarts such as a Chinese or Italian. Its value is reflected by the \u2018Best Delivery Restaurant \/ Takeaway\u2019 Award, in association with Just Eat, the online takeaway ordering service. <\/div>\n

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Each year\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0also presents the \u2018Special Recognition Award\u2019 to an influential culinary personality, with past winners including\u00a0Atul Kochar.\u00a0Madhur Jaffrey,\u00a0Cyrus Todiwala OBE,\u00a0Anjum Anand,\u00a0Heston Blumenthal OBE\u00a0and\u00a0Shelim Hussain MBE.<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0British Curry Awards\u00a0was established by British entrepreneur and restaurateur\u00a0Enam Ali MBE\u00a0who founded the event in 2005. He has been tirelessly promoting the British curry industry globally for the past 30 years. In speaking about the event, he says:\u00a0The British Curry has established itself as an international cuisine in its own right and a standalone culinary genre which has produced dishes such as the onion bhaji, the dhansak, the chicken tikka masala, the rogan josh, the chicken phall and the balti. As another example, where poppadoms were originally a teatime snack in India, British Curry pioneers recreated it as a replacement for bread and butter as served in British and European restaurants. So the British Curry industry has pioneered, inspired and continues to satiate the appetites of diners nationally, as well as being exported to many parts of the world, including India and the Sub Continent.<\/div>\n

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I am so humbled by and grateful to the curry lovers and diners who themselves have expressed their nominations of confidence for their favourite curry houses and restaurants, up and down the UK. It is because of them that we are able to discover the unfound restaurants and pay homage to the unsung heroes of the British curry industry. It is the public confidence that inspires the industry to continually do better and it is the diners themselves to which we collectively attribute the industry\u2019s continued success.<\/div>\n

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Event Director and Producer, Justine Ali\u00a0says, \u201cThis year\u2019s British Curry Awards will be even more spectacular than ever before. Where the event has become a major fixture on the UK\u2019s social calendar, it will surpass itself in the wow-factor stakes this year as celebrities, VIP\u2019s and key members of the hospitality and catering fraternity come together to celebrate the achievements of the unsung heroes behind the UK\u2019s most popular cuisine.\u201d<\/div>\n

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