Country Captain

An oddly East Indian dish wedged smack dab in the middle of landlocked, up-country cookery, this is an old Southern specialty dating from colonial times. Georgians hold that the concoction is their very own because a sea captain gave his Savannah hosts the recipe in exchange for their hospitality—not the most tactful gesture. Another theory about the peculiar name is that the dish is really an East Indian one transported by English colonial officers to the West Indies, where “curry capon” g