{"id":6933,"date":"2014-10-13T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/13\/madhur-jaffreys-curry-controversy\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:57:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:57:46","slug":"madhur-jaffreys-curry-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/13\/madhur-jaffreys-curry-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhur Jaffrey\u2019s Curry Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>The Famous Indian Cook Stated The Curry Was Simply A \u201cCraze\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" height=\"184\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MadhurJaffrey-467x184.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>TV chef Madhur Jaffrey has caused a stir by saying the curry dish is \u201cdying\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It was at the Cheltenham Literature Festival where the famous Indian cook stated the curry was a \u201ccraze\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This revelation oddly came ahead of National Curry Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Balti supposedly started in a Birmingham curry house in 1977, then growing in prominence through the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Jaffrey however has dismissed it as just another version of cooking rather than an authentic Indian dish.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the 1980s, I really studied the Balti and whether it had any authenticity or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI think it will slowly die. People like it, they obviously get a kick out of it. But I don\u2019t think it has authentic origins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham\u2019s Balti Triangle however is listed as one of the city\u2019s top attractions. As such, many Balti experts have criticised Jaffrey\u2019s comments claiming the dish is still as popular as ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Famous Indian Cook Stated The Curry Was Simply A \u201cCraze\u201d &#13; TV chef Madhur Jaffrey has caused a stir by saying the curry dish is \u201cdying\u201d. &#13; It was at the Cheltenham Literature Festival where the famous Indian cook stated the curry was a \u201ccraze\u201d. &#13; This revelation oddly came ahead of National Curry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}