All were available for sprinkling over the curried lamb.

Last Saturday, lunch featured five different selections of Indian cuisine, including curried lamb and apricot chutney with cranberries.

Or, if you do not eat fish, the curried lamb.

Dorrin takes an early summer peach and slices it into quarters, letting the quarters fall onto his plate beside the curried lamb.

The cramps had begun the night before as she ate curried lamb, but she had ignored them.

"The curried lamb," he said.

After Dr Jaffery had finished his evening prayers we ate a simple iftar together: dates, grapes and a plate of curried lamb.

The lamb was far too much for the two of them, but Jennifer assured Bernard that her husband would be quite happy with curried lamb next week.

Dungeness crab, with ginger, garlic, black bean and tomato sauce, is popular, as is the curried lamb.

Even at this late hour, Kunta, the housekeeper, makes a fuss of us and brings curried lamb and cold beer.