Saturday, September 03, 2022

The Woman Who Taught the West How to Cook Indian Food – BBC News

Sep 3, 2022 Forty years ago, a ground-breaking cookery programme popularised the cooking of Indian food at home.

In fact, it proved so popular in the UK, US and Europe, supermarkets ran out of the ingredients featured on the show.

It was presented by the Indian actor turned food writer Madhur Jaffrey.

‘Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery’ was the first mainstream series about Indian food broadcast in the UK and the first to be presented by an Indian.