> From: Bob W [mailto:[email protected]]
> [...] > > > > > > > > Um I thought Vindaloo, but its nature, was the equivalent of hot... > > at least on what New Yorkers call Indian restaurant street (a block > > from > > me) where a friend of mine used to order things "vindaloo" no matter > > what the name of the dish was.. I'd make sure mine was "very very > > mild". > > > > it is in restaurants over here, but I doubt that it would be in India. > A lot of the heat in dishes here comes from people being excessively > macho and ignorant. Theres a classic comedy sketch about it: > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdo79znnHl8> > > When I was in India a few years ago the food was quite a revelation - > much better than most of what we get year and much more subtle, in > general. > > Vindaloo is an Indian adaptation from the colonial days of a Portuguese > meat dish apparently, with a wine (vinho) and garlic (alho) sauce, > hence vinho d'alho -> vindaloo. > By coincidence there's an interesting article on the BBC website today about English words of Indian origin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18796493 B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
