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Price rises in the Recession

VAT has risen back to 17.5%, and will be rising further, to 20%.

If you are tightening your belt and feel that eating out at your favourite Curry House has become a little bit of a luxury (after all, who can afford £20 or more, per head, every week?). Not to worry, why not cook your favourite spicy dishes yourself at home! Remember...

"Dining In Is The New Dining Out"

And Pat and Dominique are here to help you! We are in the process of adding recipes to our website. Please be patient, it will take some time, but we will be looking out for your recipe of the week requests. Please email Dominique at chapman.curry@btconnect.com with your requests and she will make sure that your recipe gets added to this website. 

Cookbooks - Cookery Courses - Party Food

The good news is that we are holding ALL our prices to last year's (2009) rates.  Even better news, our Saturday Morning Cookery Course prices remain at their original 2003 rate.  But, best of all... we've reduced the price of our Saturday Morning Thai Group Course.  It is now the same as our Saturday Morning Curry Group Course!

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! OLD NEWS, BUT ... !

A Good Laugh With Virgin

! GOOD NEWS ! WHAT YOU SAY!

Thank You For Your Letters and Emails

on 16 April, 2010, Molly Sheridan wrote:

The Curry Bible has arrived, please thank Pat for his signature. It looks superb and I look forward to experimenting. I always wondered it is is possible to curry wild boar! as we have plenty around here, the Pyreenes.

on 10 April, 2010, Una Greene, St Andrew's School, Totteridge, London. N20 wrote:

On behalf of St Andrews PTA I would like to thank you for your signed book. Our Bollywood evening was a great success. We had a vast selection of Indian food donated from local restaurants and from some of our parents at the school. We had a clothes sale beforehand and the majority of the people who attended wore Indian attire. It was a great night and spoken about in the playground for weeks. We raised over £1,500, which is fantastic, all money will go towards our new resources room and school library. Events like these would not be possible if it was not for the support from people like yourself. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

on 28 February, 2010, David Owen wrote:

May I say how thoroughly I, and July, enjoyed our morning session with you last Saturday. All the way back to Steyning we spoke about the morning and the meals we were to make together from what we learned and from the recipes in the book we bought. The whole session was an eye opener and the Coleman's jar was the only trade name in sight. How marvellous to learn how to make the Sauce's and Marinade's but using the basic vegetables and spices and not from tins and jars. Our friends will be in for a nice surprise and will only be annoyed with us by not making contact with you earlier. Again many thanks and more powder to your elbows.

on 1 February, 2009, Dan Fox wrote:

I love curry. I'm sure you've heard that before. I've spent some time in India and grew up in the Midlands, UK where I enjoyed regular take-outs! I own two of your books. (Indian Restaurant Cookbook and your full colour Curry Bible) but it was always easier just to phone the local delivery people. Four months ago my wife and I moved to Vancouver Island, Canada. No Indian takeaways. One local restaurant serving bland 'Canadian curry' Oh dear oh dear. There was only one thing for it. I dug out your books and decided to give them ago.

I went to the mainland. Spent $160 on whole spices. $50 on an electric grinder and $100 on air-tight plastic containers. Quite an investment! Then I set about making Tikka Madras Curry (page 89 of the Curry Bible).