IndiaOrganix (Brighton)
| Name | Prakash Omari |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website | www.indiaorganix.org |
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IndiaOrganix is an Indian food brand created by Sanjay Kumar of MIKA & Co in Brighton, Sussex. IndiaOrganix was set up to promote & market the organic produce of India's traditional spice gardens, spice workers cooperatives, tribal spice producers and street traders, and SAARC funded tribal wildcrafting projects. IndiaOrganix works in partnership with traditional Indian spice houses sourcing the finest organic spice produce grown and harvested by grass-roots farmer's groups. We also work with the best British curry houses in promoting the fine spice ingredients grown in North East India and the distictive cooking styles of the 'seven sister states' of the Indian subcontinent. The Seven Sister States are a region in northeastern India, comprising the tea and spice growing regions of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura. The core business activity of IndiaOrganix is the Indian spice trade; a commercial activity of ancient origin which involves the merchandising and marketing of India's culinary spices and herbs. IndiaOrganix is a traditional British Asian family business based in Brighton and Tripura (India). This i-genius profile is maintained by and for the staff of IndiaOrganix. We hope you enjoy reading the blogs. For further details about IndiaOrganix visit www.indiaorganix.org
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September:
03.09.2008
No need to spice it up: a product that sells itself
03.09.2008
The delicious diversity of Indian nosh....
02.09.2008
Mughlai food cooked the IndiaOrganix way.....
01.09.2008
Why have you named the IndiaOrganix curry house in Brighton Maharaja of Tripura?
August:
Curry during the reign of the two Dicks...
posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:30 PM
Author:Sanjay Kumar, Brighton
Our research shows there is much evidence to suggest the word curry, thought to be Indian, originated in England.
In the time of Richard I there was a revolution in English cooking . Richard the Lion Heart was known for his fondness for cute French chefs and medieval kitchen boys. In the better-off kitchens, cooks were regularly using ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, galingale, cubebs, coriander, cumin, cardamom and aniseed, resulting in highly spiced cooking very similar to India. They also had a ‘powder fort’, ‘powder douce’ and ‘powder blanch’.
Then, in Richard II’s reign (1377-1399) the first real English cookery book was written. Richard employed 200 cooks and they, plus others including philosophers, produced a work with 196 recipes in 1390 called ‘The Forme of Cury’.
‘Cury’ was the Old English word for cooking derived from the French ‘cuire’ - to cook, boil, grill - hence cuisine.
In the preface it says this “forme of cury was compiled of the chef maistes cokes of kyng Richard the Secunde kyng of nglond aftir the conquest; the which was accounted the best and ryallest vyand of alle csten ynges: and it was compiled by assent and avysement of maisters and phisik and of philosophie that dwellid in his court. First it techith a man to make commune pottages and commune meetis for howshold, as they shold be made, craftly and holsomly, Aftirward it techith for to make curious potages and meetes and sotiltees for alle maner of states, bothe hye and lowe. And the techyng of the forme of making of potages and of meetes, bothe flesh and of fissh, buth y sette here by noumbre and by ordre”.
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