This soup recipe is awesome, plain and simple. It is perfect on a cold winters day or during the summer (with less curry powder). It can be prepared quickly and easily and serves 4.

Christmas miracle: The sinister side of curry powder

Jared Leto has reportedly told actress Sienna Miller she can lose weight on a diet of curry powder and “losts of sex”.Sienna had to gain several pounds for her latest role ‘Hippie Hippie Shake’ and the handsome actor is said to have told Sienna his secret weight-loss technique insisting it’s a great way to slim down.

Sienna Miller is told by Jared Leto that lots of sex and curry powder mixed with water can make one loses a lot of weight.

AN ingredient in curry may help stimulate immune system cells that gobble up the brain-clogging proteins that mark Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found.They said they isolated a compound in turmeric, a yellow spice that gives Indian curry powder its distinctive color, that appears to stimulate a specific response against Alzheimer's...

Curry powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition developed by the British during their colonial rule of India.The word "Khari" from which "curry" is derived, comes from Southern India and refers to a sauce of any kind. "Curry powder" was developed by the British, who wished to take the taste of Indian food home, without having to utilize fresh spices. As a result "curry powder" in the Western world has a fairly standardized taste, but there are literally millions of curry flavors in India. Curry powder was largely popularised after World War II, when immigrants from Southeast Asia moved to the UK. Still, curry powder did not become standardized, as immigrant households often had their own blends of curry powder.The late 60s and early 70s saw a large increase of Indian food consumption by the UK populace. This also led to an increase of Indian restaurants. The tradition of keeping special blends of curry powder simply became uneconomical, and curry powder became increasingly standardized.Indian cooks often have readier access to a variety of fresh spices than their native UK counterparts, and are more likely to make their own mixtures. Indeed, most Indian cooks will have their own specific mixtures for different recipes. These are often passed down from mothers to daughters.Most recipes and producers of curry powder usually include coriander, turmeric, cumin, and fenugreek in their blends. Depending on the recipe, additional ingredients such as ginger, garlic, fennel seed, cinnamon, clove, mustard seed, green cardamom, black cardamom, mace, nutmeg, red pepper, long pepper, and black pepper may also be added.It is also the name given to a different mixture of spices that include curry leaves, which is used in South and East Indian cuisine. External linksHidden IndiaFoodnetwork's Curry Powder recipe