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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

772: On the Curry Trail with Raghavan Iyer

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, it's an hour-long special featuring the iconic writer and teacher Raghavan Iyer, author of the forthcoming book, On The Curry Trail

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:48.0

I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.

0:58.7

Thank you. the splendid table from APM. You know, I'd love to think that we're entering a golden age of Indian food culture in America.

1:04.2

It's overdue, especially since, you know, it's one of the world's greatest and most

1:08.7

influential cuisines, but I am totally here for it.

1:12.6

And I think this because, for the first time ever last year, a James Beard Award went to a chef, Chintin Pondya, who serves what he calls unapologetic Indian food.

1:23.7

Some of our absolute best writers and editors on any food subject, including Indian food,

1:29.2

are Indian Americans. Now, I'm thinking of stars like Priya Krishna, Tadhaal Rao, Kushbusha,

1:34.7

Nick Sharma, Sonia Chopra, many others. And of course, the face of top chef is Padma Lakshmi,

1:41.0

who talks with as much passion about the food she grew up with as what she eats on TV.

1:47.6

But of course it wasn't always this way. Indian immigrants to America make up less than 1% of the population.

1:53.5

And they only started arriving in earnest in the mid-60s. Back then it was only about 12,000 people a year.

1:59.5

And they didn't often get into food service.

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