From Answer in Progress.
What even is a curry? A dish? A spice? A colonial mistake? Or something that’s always been part of who we are? In this video, Melissa unpacks this messy debate, tracing how a single word came to define (and flatten) an entire world of flavours, histories, and identities.
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CREDITS
Directed by: Melissa Fernandes
Produced by: Emily Diana Ruth
Story Editing by: Sabrina Cruz, Taha Khan
Research Assisance by: Austin Thompson
Cinematography by: River Shepherd, Jesse McCracken, Kariza Santos
Video Editing by: Sabrina Cruz, Parnika Raj, Joe Trickey
Sound Mix by: Joe Trickey
Music Compostion by: Varman Navaratnam
Animation by: Sabrina Cruz
Sound Design by: Joe Trickey
Audio Studio: Audio Process
Voice-Over Recording by: James Findlay
Colour Studio: Alter Ego
Colourist: Malini Khotsiphom
Colour Producer: Sam Omand
Executive Producer of Colour: Jane Garrah
Special Thanks to: Professor Jayeeta Sharma, My Family, Charleyès West Indian Grocery, Madelain Russo, Kayla Pinto, Ria Kapoor
FAMILY RECIPES FEATURED
Grandma’s Curry Chicken (My Mom’s): https://www.thirdculturekitchen.blog/grandmas-curry-chicken
Nana’s Chicken Curry (My Dad’s): https://www.thirdculturekitchen.blog/nanas-chicken-curry
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 intro
00:30 a personal crisis
01:31 tracing the roots of curry
02:33 black pepper
03:02 the industrialization of curry
04:47 a tale of two curries
07:20 simmering
09:15 thank you, brb crying
Thank you to the Canada Media Fund and Digital Creators Pilot Program for supporting this project.
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Welcome to the joke under the fold!
The joke is that this video took over a year to make, but also 3 weeks.
Leave a comment the word SIMMER to let me know you were here 🙂
