Eat This Newsletter 021

18 January 2016

Dig deep

1. What ails the British curry restaurant.
2. Maybe Pushpesh Pant – The chronicler of Indian food – has an answer.
3. But don’t let Bruce Palling know about Pant inspiring contemporary chefs. Palling says Don’t mess with traditional dishes.
4. Speaking of traditions, here’s an exhumation and autopsy of Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. You can’t keep a good myth down.
5. Discarding an ill-deserved good reputation is probably just as difficult, but one professor says the sun has set on vitamin D supplements.
6. Self-promotion slot: I learned about a database that links art and artefacts, many of them kitchen kit.