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The Bengali Kitchen Divide

Poppy seeds and sugar, or chilli and dried fish: Bengal鈥檚 kitchen divide.

Bengalis are united by a love of good food, but divided over who cooks it. West Bengalis love poppy seeds and sugar, East Bengalis dried fish and chilli. 麻豆社 Bangla journalists Manoshi Barua from India's West Bengal state, and Masud Khan from Bangladesh, shed light on the Bengali kitchen divide.

Image: Shukti, or dried fish, is popular in Bangladesh
Credit: Majority World/UIG via Getty Images

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