It was extremely tempting to head this piece as ‘Covid Conquering Curry’ but good sense got the better of me. I will however direct you to a paper by Dr Philip C Calder from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton which was published in the British Medical Journal in April. One takeaway I did get (no pun intended) from the article was that certain vitamins and trace elements have been found to be beneficial in supporting the immune system, not just through Covid-19, but in other coronaviruses and respiratory infections. Even if the risk of coronavirus is lower where you live, flu and the common cold haven’t gone away. Which leads me to a curry I created one night after attending a conference on cosmic communication…