My Crohn’s disease crept up on me and bit me in the arse.

Very sorry to hear that, T63 — I had a good friend who suffered from Crohn's disease, so I know (at 2nd hand) just how debilitating it can be.
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Oh, you mean 正豐 特級四川花椒粒 — why didn't you say that ?!

My two penn'orth.  If I order a chicken curry, or even a chicken Madras, I expect a largeish quantity of a relatively thin sauce, and an adequate sufficiency of chicken (the latter must never have seen the inside of a tandoor); if I order a bhuna chicken, I expect a far drier dish, but not one in which the sauce has been reduced to the texture of porridge — rather, there should have been less sauce in the first place, which has then been reduced to achieve the desired consistency.  Thick, sticky, curry sauce does nothing for me, except in dishes such as lamb dhansak where the thickening is intentional and facilitated by the addition of dal.  From my memories of "the good old days", I seem to recall that chicken pathia had a similar texture/consistency to bhuna chicken, with a flavour closer to chicken dhansak.
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“Mapping the Language of Spices: A Corpus-Based, Philological Study on the Words of the Spice Domain” by Gábor Parti.

ABSTRACT

Most of the existing literature on spices is to be found in the areas of gastronomy, botany, and history. This study instead investigates spices on a linguistic level. It aims to be a comprehensive linguistic account of the items of the spice trade. Because of their attractive aroma and medicinal value, at certain points in history these pieces of dried plant matter have been highly desired, and from early on, they were ideal products for trade. Cultural contact and exchange and the introduction of new cultural items beget situations of language contact and linguistic acculturation. In the case of spices, not only do we have a set of items that traveled around the world, but also a set of names. This language domain is very rich in loanwords and Wanderwörter. In addition, it supplies us with myriad cases in which spice names are innovations. Still more interesting is that examples in English, Arabic, and Chinese — languages that represent major powers in the spice trade at different times — are here compared.

FULL TEXT: https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp338_spices_linguistics.pdf

Many congratulation on your new business, Syed.  I may well be in Birmingham later this month, in which case I will most definitely call in if I can.
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