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I dont think we should break it up into two sections instead we can stress upon the variety, why dont we write more on the diversity. I have seen plenty of variation even in the district levels.
Also I think one defining property of bengali cuisine is the use of shorser tel. I think we must broaden this part. Also the various leaves-vegetables we use are also very rare. lau, kumro, palong, note, pui, kalmi, susni, sajna, ninche, patal, uchhe, sapui, kachu .. and many more. I think this is a very precious local color in our quisine and we must record them.
best of luck Jeroje 00:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)jeroje
It seems to me that there are enough differences in food habits and dishes that Bangladeshi food and West Bengal food deserve seperate sections. People on either side of the border do similar things in different ways, and this is not that easy to represent in the same text without a lot of explanations and exceptions.
What do people think?
-- Shanky 14:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
This was moved from the main page; the author was not a registered user For any clarifications you can mail me at chayan_banerji@hotmail.com. I shall be glad to reciprocate to queries in the periphery of my understanding. I work as a food production lecturer at a college affiliated to Osmania University.
There is this unnecessary fuss about the English spelling of a Bangla word:
I am removing it because I fail to see why this discussion is at all necessary. Most of the information, except for the "shondhi bichchhed", is incorrect anyway.
-- Urnonav 13:40, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Bengali "Hindu" and "Muslim" food? Come on, the difference is due to region, not religion. I propose to remove religious references and rewrite the article to refer to regional cuisine differences. I have never seen any difference between Hindu and Muslim family food in Bangladesh. Also, the thing about Muslims coming into Bengals with the Mughals is false, Islam in Bangladesh arrived much earlier. Remember Bakhtiar Khalji? Anyway, religious references are irrelevant and POV here. Thanks. -- Ragib 07:42, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I feel this article is heavily skewed towards Bengali cuisine of Indian Bengal, and often fails to mention facets of Bangladeshi cuisine and the terminology associated with it. Unfortunately, I myself am not qualified to write much on the topic, as my area of expertise is on the language and not the food, but I would suggest that anyone who knows more about Bangladeshi food please feel free to add onto what's been written.
Also, I updated the spelling of the Bengali words to reflect the system agreed upon by some of the main contributors to the Bengali language and Bengali script pages. It's sort of silly to romanize a Bengali word as if it were Sanskrit or Hindi, so this system roughly reflects what is considered Standard Bengali pronunciation. Please let me know if there are any questions or comments about this.
-- SameerKhan 06:34, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
This article is full of spelling mistakes and weird sentence structure. I think I've fixed about 95% of the typoes in it (the ones that caught my eye, anyway) but it needs much, much more editing to make it an encyclopedia-worthy article. There is some slight POV scattered everywhere (i.e. an extremely interesting article(!) - removed now btw) and all Bengali terms are not in italics - making them hard to understand from an Western viewpoint. Not friendly for someone who isn't immediately familiar with Bengali cuisine at all. :(
So, I request all Bengali wikipedians to cleanup this article in any way possible. It'd be nice to work together making it at least a good article. Sheehan ( Talk) 04:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. An anonymous user posted this message in the body of the main article. I am moving it here. -- Antorjal 18:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC) " Is the variant of muri "khoa" or "khoi"? Pls. check"
No picture at all. Can anyone provide some pictures of Bengali cuisine.-- NAH ID 19:19, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Right now, the article mainly talks about the cuisines of West Bengal rather than the greater region of Bengal, including the nation Bangladesh. Continuing the thread I started at User talk:Sankarson, I propose the following :
About the information, the "Influence of Hindu Widows" section is not referenced at all, nor is the statement "From the culinary point of view, some major historical trends influenced Bengali food. ". The article's focus on "Rise of Kolkata" is also not very correct -- Kolkata was only prominent from the 19th century, while other cities such as Dhaka are much older. So,
So, this article needs a massive rework. I suggest starting fresh, may be in a subpage, and then migrate the work into the main article. All information must be referenced, especially anything about historic influences. And of course, *this * article needs to be about generic Bengali food, not just the food of any particular region. -- Ragib ( talk) 04:12, 12 October 2008 (UTC)