British Balti to receive protected status?
Posted by Neil Payne on July 2nd, 2009
Every week thousands of diners head to curry restaurants the length and breadth of Britain to tuck into a Balti.
The famous dish is widely thought to have originated in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham in the late 1970s and first cooked by immigrants from Kashmir.
Now the city council is considering a bid to have Birmingham’s special claim on the Balti name recognised.
If successful it could give the distinctive curry “protected geographical status”, like Melton Mowbray pork pies, Wensleydale cheese and Cornish clotted cream.
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