Cervelat sausage filled with meat and pork brains." Modern recipes do not include brains, and arose towards the end of the 19th century in Basel, as a reworking of the traditional recipe. The taste of the sausages depends on the region, but generally they are similar to that of a frankfurter, but with a smokier flavour and a texture brought about by its fat shape and the tightly wrapped natural casing. Various European semi-dry cervelat are similar to summer sausage in the U.S., and Thuringian sausage can be considered a type of cervelat. In Switzerland, cervelats are cooked (slightly smoked and
Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish by Indian food would make a compelling book, but that Shrabani Basu's was not that, being "shoddily written and mind-bogglingly banal", offering "no anthropological insights, few historical perspectives, no literary conspectus, little sociological research". 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