Two Week Contdown to National Curry Week 2012
National Curry Week (8-14 October) first started by focusing on restaurants to promote "Britain's favourite dish" and raise charitable funds for the malnourished and disaster stricken on the sub continent.
Gradually with new sponsors Patak's and S&A Foods with Asda, the message spread to cover the dine at home fans and still further to takeaway fans with CurriesOnline and hungryhouse.co.uk.
The only area not covered was the thousands of pubs that run weekly Curry Nights but now, with the help of The Publican/Morning Advertiser and new sponsors Lion from Sri Lanka with their famous stout and lager even that will be covered.
Requests are also pouring in for free copies of the fun National Curry Week Quiz.
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, The Horse & Groom pub in Milcombe Oxon, Nottinghamshire Youth Service and Folkestone College already have plans in place and Hertfordshire County Council will be organising a week long project for 8th - 14th October to run in all of their Secondary Schools, which will have a total target audience of circa 50,000 students.
They will offer 10 Curry Dishes that they feel would appeal to the average teenager, promote what they are doing as a County and are going to give each of their 40 Secondary Schools a Theme Kit to decorate their dining room during this week.
This will be the 15th year of National Curry Week and 10th year of Curry Capital of Britain and over the years we have managed to have great fun whilst raising money for the needy. I hope the curry loving public will again break all records by celebrating the week in a restaurant, at work, at home, in the pub or even at the sports club and we look forward to hearing their stories at www.nationalcurryweek.co.uk .
Peter Grove, founder and organiser
Elsewhere celebrity chef Tipu Rahman from Tamarind in Northampton will be attempting to break the World Poppadom Tower record on 11the October and up and down the country the public and restaurants will be holding special events to raise funds for charity.
There will even be fun through auction website, Ebay, as the public can bid for Stony Stratford's Calcutta Brasserie's Head Chef and a member of staff to cook for them and up to five guests in their own home.
We know our head chef is one of the best in the country and this is a rare opportunity to offer people in Milton Keynes. We tried this last year and it was a great success and completely unique experience for everyone.