Twin Towns Tandoori
Curry Place banquet for Swindon and Salzgitter Mayors.
There was a special dish on the menu at The Curry Place in Rodbourne for the visit of Swindon Mayor Steve Wakefield and his Salzgitter counterpart Frank Klingebiel.
Unique menu:
Mashuk Ali, Steve Wakefield, Frank Klingebiel,
Beeteshoke De and Mahmod Ali |
Twin Towns Special Kurzee Lamb, the creation of chef Mashuk Ali, who cooked a lunch banquet for the two dignitaries as part of a week of twinning celebrations.
"It was an honour to welcome them to The Curry Place" said owner Mahmod Ali, "and to create the dish was the least we could do."
Salzgitter was the first town to be twinned with Swindon, an official link that has now been going since 1975.
Other twin towns include:
Ocotal, Nicaragua, since 1990
Toruń, Poland, since 2003
Chattanooga, USA, since 2006