Traditional and historical have to be checked carefully once you go back more than 500 years.
No one in Europe was eating potatoes with their cabbage then.
No Indian dishes with tomato sauce.
Corn was maize.
Peanuts, South America.
Capsicum peppers, Central and South America.
etc.
Hm. isn’t “curry” kind of a wypipo label for a huge spectrum of Indian cuisine? (That doesn’t involve that yellow powder.)
I wasn’t clear, I didn’t notice I was quoting from your post but meant to quote cheem directly. IIRC, you have the two accounts due to a log in problem.