Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They served us 'curry' at school. Horrible > gelatinous sauce with raisins/sultanas in it. It > almost put me off for life. Same here! (Though thankfully, it didn't). My mum had a 'curry' cookbook, very 1970s. Each recipe had an accompanying photograph that was....brown. Not just the food but the crockery too! I tried experimenting with that book leading to inevitably disastrous results. I cannot remember the first time I ate curry in a restaurant though, it was probably some flock wallpaper, cheesy place that bears no resemblance to the real thing. However, I am pleased to say that I can cook Indian food now and love all of it, whatever the region - Keralan, Goan, Andhra-style, Maharashtrian :)