Taste of Schenectady® Vol. 3 • No. 6
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Taste of Schenectady® and Beyond is The Gourmet Food and Lifestyle Connection© Each issue of Taste of Schenectady® is filled with stimulating articles, recipes, and news, as well as destinations of places to dine, play, shop, and sip. Check out new destinations, and culinary tips for cooking at home. Thanks for reading Taste of Schenectady® Please make sure to patronize our advertisers who make it possible for you to receive a complimentary copy of our Gourmet Food and Lifestyle Connection© magazine!
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2 taste<strong>of</strong>schenectady.com <strong>•</strong> <strong>Vol</strong>. 3 <strong>•</strong> <strong>No</strong>. 6<br />
I’LL STIR THE POT!<br />
Famines in India resulted<br />
in more than 60 million<br />
deaths over the course <strong>of</strong><br />
the 18th, 19th, and early<br />
20th centuries” (known<br />
as the India Holocaust—<br />
caused by the British East<br />
India Company aka EIC).<br />
A note from the publisher<br />
Mr. David J. Long Jr.<br />
Mulligatawny marries both British and Indian ingredients to form a soup<br />
that is a bit spicy, and a bit sweet—sorta like the U.K. leaving the EU.<br />
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa<br />
May has submitted notice<br />
to the president <strong>of</strong> the European<br />
Council, Donald Tusk,<br />
that her country will <strong>of</strong>ficially<br />
depart the European<br />
Union (EU) under Article 50<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Lisbon Treaty. What<br />
will the British and EU relationship<br />
look like after Britain<br />
leaves the European Union?<br />
Will mulligatawny and other<br />
British-invented Indian spices<br />
be available outside <strong>of</strong> Great<br />
Britain? Don’t worry! One finds<br />
David J. Long Jr., CDM, CFPP<br />
Food & Travel Editor & Publisher<br />
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mulligatawny soup on an<br />
Indian restaurant menu the<br />
same way one always finds<br />
buffalo wings on a bar menu.<br />
Mulligatawny soup has a<br />
kind <strong>of</strong> shady past, just like<br />
the EU. After doing research,<br />
I realized that there is no cut<br />
and dry history <strong>of</strong> the soup<br />
or <strong>of</strong> the European Union.<br />
Mulligatawny is not strictly<br />
an East India dish. It’s actually<br />
based on an Indian dish that<br />
was changed into the soup to<br />
satiate (and placate) the fussy<br />
British soldiers during the British<br />
Raj (1858 to 1947 when<br />
Britain ruled parts <strong>of</strong> South<br />
Asia/India—and took all the<br />
spices and resources to the<br />
U.K.—causing more famine).<br />
Mulligatawny means “pepper<br />
water,” a stew the Brits loved<br />
that their Tamil (India and Sri<br />
Lanka) servants would serve.<br />
The British elite “demanded”<br />
a soup course. The British EIC<br />
eventually brought the invented<br />
soup dish back home,<br />
where it became a well-loved<br />
classic like the Brit-invented<br />
spice “Curry powder.”<br />
Famines in India resulted in<br />
more than 60 million deaths<br />
over the course <strong>of</strong> the 18th,<br />
19th, and early 20th centuries—perpetrated<br />
by the<br />
East India Company, which is<br />
now Dutch and UAE owned.
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