Curry and Rice on Forty Plates at 'Our Station' by George Francklin Atkinson
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Curry and Rice
on Forty Plates:
Or
The Ingredients of Social Life
at "Our Station" in India
(The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence)
by George Francklin Atkinson
164 pages, 190 x 250 x 18 mm, hardback
Publisher: Orchid Press,Thailand; 5th edition (April 1998)
Gold leaf page ends: very smart
ISBN-10: 9748299511
ISBN-13: 978-9748299518
"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-India cantonment, which in the authors own words "rejoices in the euphonious appellation of Kabob, 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 life in Raj India. Subjects include "Our Colonel", "Our Padre", "Our Magistrate's Wife", "Our Racecourse", "Our Bazar", "Our Agriculturalists", and "Our Nawab". Our favourites are "Our Cookhouse" and "Our Ball" which is the picture depicted here.
This is a 1998 reprint of the work first published in 1867 and in our view is a 'must-have' in the library of all serious curry book collectors.
