{"id":7642,"date":"2015-07-27T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/27\/birmingham-balti-recognised\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:30:37","slug":"birmingham-balti-recognised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/27\/birmingham-balti-recognised\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Balti Recognised"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Birmingham will be officially recognised as the home of the world-famous dish \u2013 the balti. <\/div>\n

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Ranking alongside Champagne and the Cornish pasty in a new gourmet guide listing Europe\u2019s best regional produce, the balti is due to be included in the EU Protected Food Name scheme, which highlights traditional foods and stops them being copied throughout the European Union.<\/div>\n

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The status now means that the Birmingham balti can be produced only in those named parts of the world.<\/div>\n

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The city\u2019s renowned balti-lover Andy Munro has been driving the bid for recognition\u00a0on behalf of the Birmingham Balti Restaurant Association.<\/div>\n

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He said previously: \u201cI\u2019ve always been very keen on the genuine balti but we\u2019ve now got to the stage where everybody\u2019s calling any sort of curry a balti.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat makes me think it\u2019s time we defined the real thing, which Birmingham is famous for.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was in a supermarket looking at the curry sauces from a well known spice firm, and the ingredients for the balti sauce and the jalfrezi were exactly the same except for the jalfrezi having peppers.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat is a complete and utter scam, and you can\u2019t have a balti from a cold display cabinet anyway.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe whole thing has become a generic name and that\u2019s why we want to define the difference with the \u2018Birmingham Balti\u2019 mark.<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf people want to sport that mark they would have to cook it in the proper way.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Will Be Given Official Status Birmingham will be officially recognised as the home of the world-famous dish \u2013 the balti. \u00a0 Ranking alongside Champagne and the Cornish pasty in a new gourmet guide listing Europe\u2019s best regional produce, the balti is due to be included in the EU Protected Food Name scheme, […]<\/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-7642","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\/7642","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=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/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=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}