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My cousin is a chef, and refuses to eat curry, he says it is spices to cover up the taste of rotting meat and vegetables, created when spoilage was common prior to refrigeration.
Please... prior to the invention of refrigerator, every culture had their way of preserving meat by curing, pickling, canning, etc, and each used whatever was handy in their own country. In hot countries like India or Thailand, spices are available abundantly year round, so it makes sense that they use it in pretty much all their cooking. In cold countires like the west, vinegar is the common choice since it's much more handy & affordable than imported spices.
Anyone can throw together a few things in a pot and call it a meal. But to make everything you throw in the pot works well in harmony and tastes good, that takes skills and creativity. This is not an attack on you or your cousin, but I simply can't stand snobbery.
If anything, I find it much harder to cook a dish that requires a lot of spices than simple western food like marinara sauce, for example. But when I get it right and the spices work together like a symphony in your mouth, oh, man.. it's worth every trial & error and effort that goes into it.
My cousin is a chef, and refuses to eat curry, he says it is spices to cover up the taste of rotting meat and vegetables, created when spoilage was common prior to refrigeration...
Please... prior to the invention of refrigerator, every culture had their way of preserving meat by curing, pickling, canning, etc, and each used whatever was handy in their own country. In hot countries like India or Thailand, spices are available abundantly year round, so it makes sense that they use it in pretty much all their cooking. In cold countires like the west, vinegar is the common choice since it's much more handy & affordable than imported spices.
Anyone can throw together a few things in a pot and call it a meal. But to make everything you throw in the pot works well in harmony and tastes good, that takes skills and creativity. This is not an attack on you or your cousin, but I simply can't stand snobbery.
If anything, I find it much harder to cook a dish that requires a lot of spices than simple western food like marinara sauce, for example. But when I get it right and the spices work together like a symphony in your mouth, oh, man.. it's worth every trial & error and effort that goes into it.
Far from snobbery. Food snobs tend to embrace many different foods, that they want well-executed and authentic. Whats being described here is more like an ignorant fear of "foreign stuff." I grew up in a household where garlic was considered the devil's food. Seafood was also viewed as suspect and libale to cause food poisoning. Curry was unmentionable. On the up side - I was delighted to discover all these foods when I left home at 18. More like dimwittery than snobbery.
Far from snobbery. Food snobs tend to embrace many different foods, that they want well-executed and authentic. Whats being described here is more like an ignorant fear of "foreign stuff." I grew up in a household where garlic was considered the devil's food. Seafood was also viewed as suspect and libale to cause food poisoning. Curry was unmentionable. On the up side - I was delighted to discover all these foods when I left home at 18. More like dimwittery than snobbery.
That is what I bristled just a little at....it seemed to me to be a xenophobic tendency to dismiss that which is foreign.... those strange people who eat rotten meat and vegetables....they are so different from us. But I am more than willing to accept that it isn't anything so deep or sinister and may just be a dislike for curry....which is a different taste to a person whose palate is accustomed to salt and pepper and familiar spices and foods.
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