The Curry Club
since 1982

Also called The Ingredients of Social Life at 'Our Station' In India

The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence

Orchid Press, Thailand - April 1998 - 5th Edition

164 pages - 190mm x 250mm x 18mm

ISBN 10 9748299511

ISBN 13 978 9748299518

£30.00 plus £6.50 UK Postage and Packaging

In Stock - New. Gold leaf page ends, very smart.

Curry and Rice is not a recipe book nor does it deal in depth with the words of its title and the plates are not dinner plates but colour plates! Such as 'Our Ball' which is the picture depicted here.

The book takes the reader on a hugely entertaining and amusing mid-nineteenth century journey through the social and cultural life at 'Our Station', a fictional but otherwise typical British-Indian cantonment, which in the authors own words, 'rejoices in the euphonious appelattion of Kebob, in the plains of Dekchy, in the province of Bobarchy'. (ie: Kebab, Cooking Pan and Cook!)

There are 40 scenes, each with a short essay accompanied by a full colour illustration (plate) on the adjacent page depicting in a light-hearted manner, day to day life in Raj India. Subjects include 'Our Colonel', 'Our Padre', 'Our Magistrates Wife', 'Our Racecourse', 'Our Bazar', 'Our Agriculturalists', 'Our Nawab'. Our favourites are, 'Our Cookhouse', and 'Our Ball', which is depicted here.

This is a 1998 reprint of the work first published in 1867 and in our view a, 'must-have' in the library of all serious curry book collectors.