TV Review: Indian Food Made Easy, BBC Two, Monday 6 August, 8.30pm

Published: August 7, 2007, 4:02 am

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OK I have to come clean and admit that despite being a lifelong curry fan, and being reminded by Mof that this was coming on AND being reminded by...er...me that this was coming on, I hadn't watched any of Indian Food Made Easy until last night. I thought I'd picked the wrong one to start watching, too, at the start. It was fish night. Now I'm OK with fish as long as it looks like fish, it isn't looking back at me, and it's had all the yucky bits removed. Skin, bone, eyes, head, guts, that kind of thing. What my brother-in-sin calls "lips and cheeks." So starting with lumps of fish - "steaks" I think they're called, where the fish is gutted and then simply sliced up, skin, spine (or notochord, or whatever it is that fish have) and all - was not good for me. And then presenter Anjum Anand progressed to mussels. Mussels with dry coconut, to be precise. Having set up the premise that, while Indian chefs regularly cook with fish, English people tend not to think of currying fish

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