All good points, thanks.
I guess food history is murky and complicated, even for semi-modern things like this. :)
I don't know remotely enough about Indian food to measure the degree of innovation in tikka masala, I'm afraid.
I guess food history is murky and complicated, even for semi-modern things like this. :)
I don't know remotely enough about Indian food to measure the degree of innovation in tikka masala, I'm afraid.
Recipe for chicken tikka masala: roasted pieces of tandoori chicken in a tomatoey cream based sauce.
As is often the case with cultural appropriation, the real innovation by the appropriator was the marketing. In my view, this is what probably happened: multiple restaurants found the fake origin story a profitable and interesting marketing tool and judging by how popular indian food is in the UK today, it obviously worked.