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World Service,07 Sep 2018,9 mins

The Bengali Kitchen Divide

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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. BBC 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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