Indian food, in other words, is cheap food in the eyes of many Americans. And that has all kinds of repercussions that have stunted the cuisine's growth, at least on a commercial level.

According to Top Chef contestant and cooking teacher Amirah Islam, the word “curry” may have ... referring to all Indian food as curry is “a way to devalue and collapse, as if somehow ...

But it’s a made-up word, and some brown cooks say it’s time for it to go. Or at least to be scrapped as a catch-all term for food from the Indian subcontinent. “Curry shouldn’t be all that ...

“Masala” (as in garam masala) is the Hindi word for spice or spice blend. As renowned Indian actress and food expert Madhur Jaffrey wrote in “An Invitation to Indian Cookery” in ...

"If you like Indian curries, yay, you like Indian food!" said the original text ... of the World," also provided a brief review of the word "curry," which was coined by colonizers and has been ...

A South Asian blogger has called on people to stop using the word “curry” to describe Indian dishes over claims it is rooted in British colonialism. Chaheti Bansal, a 27-year-old food blogger ...