Shondesh Kon Desh Excerpt.mp4 from bangladeshi desh Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 70 sec
✓ Published: 22-Aug-2023

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Shondesh is a milk based molded sweet that, although considered quintessentially Bengali, entered the Bengali culinary tradition through contact with the Portuguese from the late 15th century. Categories of identity have become solid, lithified objects in my mind to which I must — and sometimes desire to — conform, even though I sometimes perceive these categories – Bangladeshi, Muslim, Tennessean – as conflicting. But like the inherent histories contained in shondesh, I see food, ingest