Cork: The spice of life

Haveli, Morris House, Douglas West, Cork; tel: [phone]; www.haveli.ie

I’VE NEVER understood why so many Irish people enthusiastically embrace food they are assured is authentic Chinese cuisine — and the myriad variations thereof — but are so very reluctant to embrace the far richer, warmer pleasures of Indian food.

Maybe the sweet, the heavily-seasoned, unchallenging Hiberno dilutions of Chinese food, are not so terribly far removed from the high-fat, high-sugar diet we are used to.