Pau Torres

[Dave]

I hope Pau is reading this thread with interest. Looks like he's got plenty of brains and curiosity in his handsome head.

Hope he isn't - imagine his horror when he sees people incorrectly slating his paella.

[Brazilian Villain]

I hope Pau is reading this thread with interest. Looks like he's got plenty of brains and curiosity in his handsome head.

Hope he isn't - imagine his horror when he sees people incorrectly slating his paella.

If he is, he'll either be pleased or disappointed that no one has referred to his dish as a Pauella.

[Lastfootstamper]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

I'd also wonder whether the original claim is correct. There are thousands of Indian restaurants in the UK for obvious colonial reasons, but I wouldn't say they're particularly prevalent in many other countries compared to other cuisines.

Without looking it up, I'd bet that in most cities outside the UK and the Indian sub-continent you're going to find more Japanese than you would Indian. Probably Thai as well.

In my experience Indian food is very common all over northern and central Europe.

I know. I didn't suggest that it wasn't very common. I'm just not sure I'd be making the claim that worldwide it's one of the "3 most popular foods that appear in almost every major city in the world".

I think you might be right but for the wrong reason. It's easy to dismiss it but American food is everywhere, I'd put Indian above Sushi and Thai in my experience though. That is very European biased so maybe it's different elsewhere.

Anecdotal and 25 years out of date, but I remember living in Milan at the end of the 90s and there being about 3 Indian restaurants in the city and about 300 Chinese.

Anecdotal and a further 10 years out of dater, on my first trip to Amsterdam there was a plethora of Indochinese places but we couldn't get a 'proper' curry, and similarly on a three week RV jolly around the western USofA we found just one Indian.

[Dave]

I hope Pau is reading this thread with interest. Looks like he's got plenty of brains and curiosity in his handsome head.

Hope he isn't - imagine his horror when he sees people incorrectly slating his paella.

If he is, he'll either be pleased or disappointed that no one has referred to his dish as a Pauella.

To move things onto another tangent, would that be the Paul / Paula style feminine version of his name?

[Bad English]

Here's one I made last Sunday for ten people. Valenciana, no snails.

[Bad English]

Double post.

[Bad English]

Triple post. FFS!

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Cooking for 20 people is some effort.

[dave shelley]

The first time we went to Malta, we found a little restaurant that offered both Indian and Moroccan cuisine, a different combination to say the least. 

Mrs S is a fussy eater but does like the milder Indian dishes.  I, on the other hand will have a go at most things.  I had a Moroccan Tagine, Mrs S had a Korma, which she maintained was the best she'd ever had. 

The Tagine was absolutely delicious.  When we went back to Malta a couple of years later, we went there again only to find that the Moroccan menu was no longer available.  Bummer.

We had a lovely Indian meal in the old town in Nice in great surroundings.

[Drummond]

Double post.

Triple

[olaftab]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

[Dave]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

I'd say (a) no, not to the same extent and (b) if the Spanish had invented* something as convenient, adaptable and replicable as pizza then there might be millions more Spanish joints selling it around the world.

*happy to take the "but ancient Greece and Persia" corrections.

[olaftab]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

I'd also wonder whether the original claim is correct. There are thousands of Indian restaurants in the UK for obvious colonial reasons, but I wouldn't say they're particularly prevalent in many other countries compared to other cuisines.

Without looking it up, I'd bet that in most cities outside the UK and the Indian sub-continent you're going to find more Japanese than you would Indian. Probably Thai as well.

Claim is valid. Europe, Canada, major USA cities, Caribbean countries, Middle East, Africa, Oceana etc. there is not much else left.

[Dave]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

I'd also wonder whether the original claim is correct. There are thousands of Indian restaurants in the UK for obvious colonial reasons, but I wouldn't say they're particularly prevalent in many other countries compared to other cuisines.

Without looking it up, I'd bet that in most cities outside the UK and the Indian sub-continent you're going to find more Japanese than you would Indian. Probably Thai as well.

Claim is valid. Europe, Canada, major USA cities, Caribbean countries, Middle East, Africa, Oceana etc. there is not much else left.

Happy to hear your examples.

[Somniloquism]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

I'd say (a) no, not to the same extent and (b) if the Spanish had invented* something as convenient, adaptable and replicable as pizza then there might be millions more Spanish joints selling it around the world.

*happy to take the "but ancient Greece and Persia" corrections.

I thought most "pizza" in the world is American, not Italian. The same with most "Mexican" places.