As is the nature of travel, we often discover new things when we are in parts of the world previously unfamiliar to us, and want to incorporate them into our lives back at home. Food especially falls into this category. The odds are that what we have discovered has probably been a part of a particular culture for hundreds of years, but nonetheless it is still new to us; we want to share this marvelous new flavor with our family and friends. Consequently, we try to assimilate many of the unusual, exotic flavors and cooking secrets of other cultures into our everyday life. The ease of modern-day travel only enhances these possibilities, but even back in the 1600s the employees of the British East India Company became so enamored of the wonderful curry-flavored dishes of India that they wanted to take the flavor home with them. In most authentic Indian cooking, the curry ingredients are mixed up individually for each dish, then roasted and ground.