Dinner Tonight! (F&M II)

I'm cooking chicken tikka masala for dinner this evening. I think of CTM as one of the most classic Indian dishes, on the menu at every Indian restaurant I know. But it isn't actually 100% Indian. Chicken tikka comes from India. The masala sauce was added in Britain, where people preferred gravy on their meat. It became so popular that numerous restaurants in India actually serve it now.

The music that best fits with tonight's dinner is fusion too. There are countless examples of musical fusion, including many that marry Indian music with Western idioms. I'm listening to tabla player and percussionist Badal Roy, and particularly to his collaborations with Jazz musicians including Ornette Coleman and Herbie Hancock.