Brown Windsor soup Christie's Poirot, episode "Hercule Poirot's Christmas", Poirot laments to a waiter that the Brown Windsor Soup he has been served "doesn't look very... delicieux". In "Basil the Rat," the last episode of Fawlty Towers, the upper-class couple who have the rat under their table order a Windsor Soup as their starter. Notes Citations Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup is a British meat soup that is said by conventional wisdom to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, although well documented evidence for the soup does not exist until the 1920s and 30s. In any case, "Brown Windsor
Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish is a 1999 book written by Shrabani Basu. The book discusses in detail the growth of the Indian food business in Britain and how it became a million dollar business there. A 1997 Gallup poll of British tastes in food proved that curry, basically an Indian food, was the nation's favourite food with over a quarter of Britons eating it at least once a week. Tunku Varadarajan, writing in "India Today", argued that the story of the conquest of Britain