"Nor is there anything particularly shady in the fact that--given the blustering popularity of Indian food in contemporary Britain--the British Tourist Board describes curry as authentic 'British fare.' A couple of summers ago I even encountered in London a marvellous description of a person's incurable 'Englishness': she was, we were informed, 'as English as daffodils or chicken tikka masala.'" --Amartya Sen