Conclusion

Curry was a by-product of the European colonization of India. However, curry was invented not because of the competition between the colonizers and colonized but because of the native and foreigner symbiosis. Curry was developed through cooperative, domestic-level communication and interactions between the Indian, the Portuguese, and the British.

This invention was mutually beneficial. This new exotic, delicious, and nutritious cuisine enabled Indian culture to become more popular and well known globally, while enriching the culinary culture of the British. It also deepened the culinary knowledge of many Indian women and cooks. It later helped many immigrants from the former colonial territories near India settle in Britain. Later, curry even provided the Japanese with a national staple food. Japanese housewives learned and cooked convenient and economically practical curry dishes.

Curry’s history demonstrates that cooperative intercultural communications can promote creative and mutually beneficial innovations, even amid the backdrop of brutal colonization.