Two authors, Tim Koch and Gregor Lauenburger, argued that currywursts had been sold by Dutch-born Peter Hildebrand since 1936 at Peter Pomm’s Pusztetten-Stube in
Duisburg. The curry powder was ordered from
Hamburg, as "English recipe curry powder". Other sources claim that
currywurst was invented in
Hamburg. Author
Uwe Timm contends in his novel
The Discovery of Currywurst that he had eaten currywurst in Hamburg as early as 1947, but the inventor of Currywurst in his novel, Lena Brücker, is an admitted literary license. However, that did not prevent the former Hamburg Senator of the Interior
Ronald Schill from honoring Lena Brücker in 2003. Food historians such as Petra Foede believe that, as with most culinary creation myths, several rather than a single person were involved in developing this dish, sausage sellers experimenting with various spice mixes in order to replace the tomato ketchup that was unavailable during the immediate postwar years. ==References==