Agreed George. But, my experience also tells me that these forums can only help you so much in your R&D. The experience will come from the actual doing, rather than from just absorbing the information. I am pretty sure we know all we need by now and what we think we need, only comes from practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywlWkkNl19U

I hate to sound like the devil's advocate, but being a user of both sites, I don't feel like one is stealing the space from the other. Making claims such as "CA's forum will always live in the shadow of cr0" is perhaps dismissive of the fact that this community has been going since 2006, so I don't think comparing apples against pineapples will prove anything or do justice to one over the other (is bigger always better? the short answer is: It depends.)

I think what it comes down to is, some people here disliked CA and some people admired him. Those who disliked CA's style (at least, from my understanding as I didn't remember reading anything and can only assume the gist of it happened before I joined the forum, the style he conveyed during his last months as a moderator of cr0) will continue to support this community and the others who have no issues with CA will be able to join an emerging community with less attrition and a slightly stricter "indian cuisine only"  (i.e no non-curry chat section, but no one frowns upon the occasional non-curry comment being thrown in) forum.

Very good finding there Frank. Some good reading and some videos to watch. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the balti contest winner was a bengali restaurant called Greem Khana. I look forward to visit all these on the beginning of November!

Finally I can find some usefulness to my pestle and mortar, thanks Chewy!