FabulousFusionFood's Home Page

Herbs and spices on wooden spoons
Welcome to the home page for FabulousFusionFood's website.
Fusion food has been around as long as humans have been cooking (which is prior to the evolution of modern humans). Whenever two tribes, villages or cultures have met food and cookery exchange has happened. So, fusion food as a form of cuisine may be older than modern humans!
There is an argument to be made that almost all modern food is fusion food. If you season your food with black pepper, a spice that arose in Pondicherry, India then you are creating fusion food (seasoning with a non-native spice). If you are from the Old World and you use chillies, tomatoes, potatoes, maize, the majority of beans and pumpkins or squashes, then you are creating fusion foods (none of these are native to the Old World and they were all introduced during the Colombian exchange). If you are in the New World and you use wheat, barley, oats, cucumbers, cabbages and peas then you are creating fusion food as all these originated in the Old World.
This is why this site is called FabulousFusionFood as pretty much all modern recipes have a fusion element and without the fusions of different foods and cooking styles that happened when humans made contact there would be no modern food. Of course, Fusion became a 'thing' in the 1980s and 1990s when chefs travelled and brought elements of Asian cookery (whether Indian or Oriental) back to their home countries and used those to create new dishes (and often wrote books about it).
But there's nothing new here and its been happening throughout history. When the Persians clashed with the Greeks, the Romans everywhere the went, the Vikings, the Normans, various European empires (particularly the Spanish, Portuguese and British).
Possibly the best modern incarnation of fusion cookery comes with Wild Food, where native wild edibles are used and cooked in an arrange of dishes.
I'm starting this website with my collection of curry recipes, which I've been collecting for over 30 years now. They originate from all across the world and showcase the cookery of a range of nations (anywhere curry spices have been introduced or native curry-like dishes are prepared). Though the focus is on Indian and British cuisines.

We're starting with the: Fabulous Fusion Food's guide to the hottest curries.

Followed by:
British Indian Restaurant (BIR) curry recipes which are a definite class of Fusion recipes.

For all the curry recipes (from all over the world) on this site, see the Curry recipes page.

I've also added a special book for curry enthusiasts, a facsimile version of the full text of the 1869 edition of The Indian Cookery Book, an early Anglo-Indian cookery book written for British expats in Bengal, India. Many of the recipes are redacted as modern version on this site. This remains a fascinating view into how many of the BIR recipes began to evolve from their Bengali antecedents.

Other major sections of the site focus on recipes from the African continent (including every African country) along with my native Cymric/Welsh recipes, the most extensive collection of Cymric (Welsh) recipes presented in both Welsh and English on the internet today.

As avid forager, I also have an extensive collection of Wild Food Recipes including a new section on urban foraging.

Seasonal Recipes.

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Ramadan symbol March 4 Shrove Tuesday 2025
Ramadan symbol Feb 28–March 31 Ramadan and Eid 2025
Easter egg April 18–April 21 Easter 2025