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Burmese pork curry
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Burmese Pork Curries and Buddhist Monks

From morning till afternoon amidst yellow and
ochre robed men– cooks and volunteers got busy cooking kilos of pork with bamboo shoots and fragrant white rice. The aromas wafted from the hill spreading to the valley.

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Burmese chickpea tofu
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The Unique Taste of Burmese Tofu

However, paneer is a type of cheese from India, while tofu is soybean curd from China. On the other hand Burmese tofu is made from chickpea milk and has a fairly neutral flavor similar to regular tofu. It is more firm than traditional tofu and also mixed up with other dishes. Chickpea tofu is rich in protein, iron, calcium and other minerals.

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Brazilian feira
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Brazilian Food Bowl

A large number of immigrants who settled in Brazil introduced their own culinary culture– like the German & Russians in the south of Brazil, Japanese and Italians in Sao Paulo. The most basic “Brazilian” cotidian meal can include Portuguese Cod fish, Japanese Sushi, Arabian Esfia, African Okra, Italian Pasta, German sausages on the same plate.

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Preventing Cervical Cancer
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Cervical Cancer is Preventable

“Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a group of viruses that are very common. There are about 100 types of HPV, of which at least 14 are known to cause cancer.

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history of mangoes in India
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Let The Season of Mangoes Unfold

The history of Mango began thousands of years ago in the Indian subcontinent. The national fruit of India, Pakistan and Philippines, the mango tree is also the national tree of Bangladesh. Scientific fossil evidence indicates that mango made its first appearance 25 to 30 million years ago in Northeast India, Myanmar and Bangladesh from where it travelled down to South India.

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Dried fish in Arakan Myanmar
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Shutki or Dried Fish: An Age-old Technique of Preservation

‘Shutki Maach’ as we call the ‘dried fish’ is an acquired taste. You’d only have to look at the love people have for dried, smoked or fermented fish. Of course, many stories tell us that from the times of the Roman empire and even in Icelandic cultures, people were smart enough to figure out that fresh fish doesn’t last forever.

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How to grow hibiscus
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How to Grow and Care for Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus, of which 2 species are mainly grown in West Bengal, Hibiscus rosa sinesnis, locally known as ‘Jaba’ and Hibiscus mutabilis (Sthal Padma). In this note, we will be discussing Hibiscus Rosa sinesnis (Jaba) only.

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