Thursday, October 13, 2005

Bengali Food an Emerging Cuisine

Yesterday, I wrote about Bengali cuisine. Actually, if you live overseas, you might not even have heard about this regional cuisine, for Indian food -- if there is a pan-Indian cuisine -- has long been dominated by North Indian, or Tandoori, Mughlai (the food of the former Muslim rulers) and South Indian cuisines.

Tandoori is, indeed, the face of Indian dining abroad. When I lived in the United States, every Indian restaurant I went to had Tandoori delights on the menu. Ask anyone familiar with Indian food and that person will probably say Tandoori chicken before you can say chutney. Even in India, it's these cuisines that stand for Indian food.

However, Bengali food is becoming popular in India. A recent article, "Bengal on the Menu," in The Telegraph (See the Links section on the right) talks about how Bengali cuisine is finding its rightful place on restaurant tables around the country.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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http://delhi.hungryzone.com

Apart from an exhaustive restaurant listing and reviews.. it also has recipe videos and health articles that are quite good and worth a visit :)

Anonymous said...

Nice blog you have out here. Even i have a bong food blog, might want to take a look.

keep the blog going..

Nilanjana

Anonymous said...

could you pls help me out. i don't understand bengali. and there is this wonderful recipe of kala jamun on this site. i would like it if you could pls pls translate it in English for me. pls . thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVnh25Vpvw&feature=related