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An evening with a culinary icon.
This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
For over 45 years Madhur Jaffrey has been revered around the world as the queen of Indian cooking. She arrived in London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her career would continue to span huge success across both food and acting. Her first book,
An Invitation to Indian Cookery, was published in 1973 and her series for BBC television
This was my Indian ‘special occasion’ dish for many years and the first I cooked out of ‘Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery’.
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Sleet, snow, leaky roof, heartbreak. Everyone needs a dish that refuels the proverbial tank and softens the edges of this thing we call life. For me, that culinary salve comes in the form of a chicken curry that I have turned to again and again over the past 20 years.
Although I canât claim credit for the bright cilantro-based gravy that pops with fresh ginger (thatâs Indian cooking doyenne Madhur Jaffreyâs magical doing), I know the recipe like the back of my hand. Itâs a dish that has been with me since my early 30s, when I was single, living in Washington, D.C., and traveling wherever the muse took me. I made it for my then-boyfriend and his family in South Africa as shelter from his alcoholic storm. I made it for the guy who would become my husband â once I knew he was worthy. And when my dear friend Ravi, originally of Bangalore, India, was relocating to New Zealand with his Sangeeta, he requested âthe curryâ for his send-off supper. When we h