TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Supreme Court sentenced a woman to death on Tuesday for killing four and making more than 60 ill by poisoning a large pot of curry at a summer festival in 1998, a case widely covered in domestic media.
The incident shocked Japan , where crime rates are relatively low and mass killings extremely rare.
Public broadcaster NHK reported the Supreme Court upheld a lower court death sentence on Masumi Hayashi, 47, for the crime that took place in the western Japanese city of Wakayama.
The Supreme Court called the crime "cruel and despicable," NHK added.
Prosecutors charged Hayashi became enraged after being shunned by her neighbours and put arsenic in the curry when she was alone in the garage where it was being prepared, Japanese media said.
Hayashi has denied being involved in the deaths in recent interviews with several domestic media outlets.
I LOVE curry! Especially S&B's curry, better than any fast food curry I've had. A friend of mine had curry while he was in Japan, and said the medium hotness one almost killed him.
Festival food > gotta love yakitori and takoyaki!
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Boondawg Member
Posts: 38235 From: Displaced Alaskan Registered: Jun 2003
I LOVE curry! Especially S&B's curry, better than any fast food curry I've had. !
I agree. I have cooked it with many meats, but al-in-all, Curry is best with pork.
CURRY: Curry is one of those words like salsa; it means different things to different people. At its most basic, curry refers to a spicy dish of vegetables or meat served with rice. Curry is derived from the Tamil word kari, which means sauce.
In some types of Indian cuisine, curry denotes a dish that is sort of like a soup made with yogurt, clarified butter, spices and chick pea flour. Other regions from England to Thailand use curry as a generic word for meat or vegetables cooked with a spicy sauce.
Different types of curry use different main ingredients, depending on the region of Asia or India you are in. Curry from the Punjab region, for instance, involves wheat instead of rice, and is heavy on the butter and cream. Malayali curry usually has coconut and coconut milk, as well as bay leaves. Tamil curry, however, is probably what most western people think of when they think of curry. Tamil curry refers to shallow-fried meat or vegetables cooked along with dry spices.
It’s the spices that most people think of as making curry, well, curry. That’s because in many parts of the world you can buy a prepared blend of spices known as curry powder that is used to make a dish of curry. To make things more confusing, curry powder may contain curry leaves, which come from the curry tree (or curry leaf tree), which is native to India.
Curry leaves are used sort of like bay leaves in Indian cooking, but they are not the only ingredient in curry powder. Curry powder is like chili powder—everyone has his or her own recipe and each concoction is a little bit different.
One common thread in many curry powder mixtures is turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color. Other popular spices in curry powder include coriander, ginger, garlic, chilies, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, cumin and tamarind.
The main types of curry you might encounter in an Indian or Thai restaurant are red, yellow, and green curry. Red curry is made with red chiles, while green curry is made with green chiles. Curry dishes can now be found all over the world, with regional variations in many countries including Sri Lanka, South Africa, Japan, the United States, China, the Caribbean and Bangladesh, to name just a few. Curry is one of those wonderful foods that adapts everywhere it goes, making it a dish loved the world over.
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Posts: 839 From: East Guilford, NY Registered: Apr 2003
