Ali Ahmed Aslam, Pakistan-Born Scottish Inventor of Chicken Tikka Masala, Dies at 77
Twenty-one years after the UK's then foreign secretary Robin Cook declared Chicken Tikka Masala, popularly known by its initials CTM, as "a true British national dish", and a decade after a survey found that it was the second most popular dish in Britain close on the heels of Chinese stir fries, its inventor, a Glaswegian of Pakistani origin, Ali Ahmed Aslam, has passed on.