Topic: Madras curries and other information

[Secret Santa]

I suppose you could argue that to be a curry powder it should be able to make a curry without the addition of any other spices. So by that definition certain madras curry powders for example would be proper curry powders, whereas some garam masalas would not be as the intention is to use them with other spices.

But you could also argue that if it's a powder and it's used for making curries, even in part, then ipso facto it's also a curry powder. In which case any garam masala would be a curry powder.

It's all a matter of semantics as far as I can tell.