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By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Published 2005
We haven’t eaten much beef on the Subcontinent, because in Hindu communities there’s no beef around. So it was a delicious surprise to be served beef bhoona, as this dish is called, when I was in Bangladesh. It was accompanied not by plain rice, but by kichuri, a kind of easy pilaf of rice and dal. In a traditional home-style Bangla meal, if you served plain rice with the beef bhoona, you would also serve a simple dal, as well as a gre