Exactly what is curry? I see people talk about how much they love it on this site?!

In south Asian curry is actually pronounced cudi but with a slight rr sound to the d. The name was taken by the Brits
while they were in India and changed to a much easier to say name curry.

So curry in it's true form is literally the 'juice' of a any dish containing an excess of water or oil like a veg curry or chicken curry. In India and many surrounding countries practically all dishes have curry in them. We call it the 'rus' in hindi.

In the west people refer to curry as usually a meat dish and so I get very confused looks from friends At school when I tell them I have curry everyday!

Also rice or naan is usually eaten with the curry because it acts as the carbohydrate in the meal so you'll often get served rice with curry
But rice in itself isn't part of the curry.

A normal authentic curry is just normal Asian spices (like chili powder , and curry powder will do but you may also want to try getting some spices by a company called MDH ..they do spices for practically everything.), some oil to cook the meat or veg and then you add onions to give it flavour. Unless you are trying north Indian recipes. We don't use onions for anything lol!
Once the main food has fried or almost finished add enough water to cover the meat or veg and give pressure.

Then you just keep repeating until you are cnfident it has cooked. Restaurants tend to add LOADS of cream but that isn't authentic.
And yes you should find all the ingredients in a normal grocery store

Good luck
Hope this was helpful

Indian gal and I like to cook :)

What people usually talk about on this site are veggies w/herbs and spices. - Usually (not always) w/ a base of onion, ginger and garlic, and then veggies added to that base (also meat if recipe calls for it). Tomatoes are usually used. The herbs and spices are added into the dish at various stages, sometimes all at the beginning and sometimes throughout. Some common herbs and spices are cinnamon, clove, turmeric, bay leaves, cardamom, coriander, cumin, and red chili powder. Also "garam masala" which is a master mix of herbs and spices. There are many others but I use those the most often. The dish cooks long enough to puree down the veggies, especially the base, to make a masala. The curry is eaten with Indian & Pakistani breads and/or rice.

If you're feeling adventurous, go to an Indian restaurant at lunch time one day and taste the variety of dishes. If you like them, keep in mind that in order to continue to be healthy you should probably learn to make them at home so you can control what goes into them. A lot of times restaurants will use too much oil and also food coloring which are not good for you.

Me, experience,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry

Curry is the name of a rice dish in which curry powder is used to flavour the meat and vegies accompanying the rice. I believe you can buy the curry powder pre-mixed, but I would recommend the recipe I found.

Curry (Put all these in hot, but not smoking oil)
1 T coriander
1 T cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp cardamom
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 1/2 tsp turmeric
1 pinch (no more) hing (also called asafoetida)
Ginger
Onions
Garlic

Just saute those and then add whatever you want!

curry is just a relatively broad term for spicy food, usually some sort of soup, stew, rice dish, etc., but it can be more then just that. Spices most usually found in curry powder include turmeric, coriander, and cumin. Curry is mostly popular in India and Asia, though it's popularty has grown wordwide. You can buy curry powder, or make your own.

Usually refers to a curry sauce/ stew with meat or even vegetables
Sometimes served with rice, bread or noodles
Curry is the most delicious food in the world...
but you have to get the one's that's really spicy, not the fake a** curry flavor sauce that isn't even spicy

it's a spicy food eaten in India, Thailand and some parts of the Far East. it usually has tumeric in it.