Food culture of Bengal: Continuity and change

Abstract

Bengali food has a extensive reputation for its celebrated assortment of varieties. People of Bengal are very proud for their splendid tradition of food. Several cooking styles, ingredients, spices and motives are responsible for the diversities of food in Bengal. The objectives of the study is 1] to describe different trends in modern Bengali food culture with respect to socio cultural context and 2] to explore relevant factors of Bengali food culture with the emergent focus in relation to cultural globalization. Analysis of data is done with tabular representations here. Sociologically it can be said that the differentiation in tastes and habits of taking food are closely linked with cultural diversity. In contemporary world of increasing globalization of culture, food habits turn to be Trans -national identity. In Bengal the co existence of global as well as indigenous food becomes the new stand. Thus focus area of the study can be related with sociology of food, sociology of culture with proper emphasis broadly on sociology of life style.