Cervelat was covered closely by the Swiss media and in a newspaper poll, 72% of those surveyed said the ""cervelas", as they knew it, had to be saved." The cervelat crisis was brought up in a parliamentary debate wherein state councillor and president of the Swiss Meat Association, Rolf Büttiker, spoke of the national sausage's social significance, calling it a "cult sausage" and "the worker's steak". The Swiss government entered into negotiations with the EU to seek an exception for zebu intestines, and Swiss scientists were sent to Brazil hoping to show that the intestines posed no risk of transmitting mad
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