We are, no doubt all familiar with the European love of curry.
This is nothing new. Medieval Europeans were among the greatest curry eaters the world has ever known. No, there were not whole roads of Indian restaurants. The truth is much more down to earth.
Due to the cost of winter feed for their animals, the people used to kill them in the autumn and salt the meat.
If you have ever eaten salt beef, you will understand that after a few weeks it loses its appeal.
Enter the spices of the orient.
Suddenly salted meat was varied in flavour and quite pallatable.
All was made possible by a chance meeting between Vasco de Gama and the great arab seaman,
Ahmed Ibn Majid in the late 1490's.
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