[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Isnt Indian food cooked in gui (sp?), some kind of
> butter? I used to get very, very sick when I went to
> Indian restaurants, because they use a lot of gui,
> even when you ask them not too!
[snip]

It's ghee, or clarified butter, and yes, a lot of Indian food *is* cooked in it.

Fortunately some enlightened establishments use vegetable oil instead, but you're right, it can be insidious.

Helen