I had always thought of curry as something spicy and usually hot. So, when I was entertaining a friend who was a very proper elderly Tamil woman from Sri Lanka, I was astonished to hear her compliment our curry. That night we had served Aunty Freda with an Italian pasta.
Aunty Freda had been an inspector of home science in her home in Jaffna in the North of Sri Lanka. She often travelled the country to ensure schools were up to standard in their cooking classes.
"Curry?" Robert nearly dropped the spoon he was winding the pasta onto. "But Aunty, this is an Italian dish."
"I know that, she chided, rolling her head and her eyes. "Curry comes from the Tamil word Kari. It simply means sauce!"
We were duly corrected.
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