I understand that Guyanese Indian Food is different from East India Indian
food. What is the difference?

Don <www.BigSpud.com> (e-mail link at page bottom).

Don Wiss > wrote:

> I understand that Guyanese Indian Food is different from East India Indian
> food. What is the difference?

Well, consider the following.

There is no pan-(East)Indian food and the very idea of such would be
preposterous. There are many ethnicities, regions, religions, and
climatic conditions on the huge subcontinent. Often, there is little
that binds together many of them, foodwise and otherwise. In fact,
lacking a common language, many people there - most actually - cannot
even communicate with those from other regions.

Now the Guyanese part of the (East) Indian diaspora has been originally
nearly as diverse, I take it. Besides, there are of course also people
from other places, such as Africa, for example, and then there are the
indigenous American Indians. Regional Indian (whether East or West)
foods may have about as much or as little in common with each other as
they have with some African foods. It appears unlikely that all or most
of each of those relatively small groups of people in that relatively
small country have been living in ghettos and clinging tenaciously to
their own kind and their own customs for decades and centuries. So,
mixing and blending, as well as perhaps a development of something
more-or-less new and different, must have been naturally occurring.

Victor