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Buy Me Some Biryani and Cracker Jack

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America's Test Kitchen

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4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Cricket World Cup started this week, and fans in New York are celebrating the wickets, the fast bowlers, and biryani. How did the rice dish become the meal of the match? Journalist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid reports. (100 Proof will be back on June 20.)

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0:00.0

There are two things that the nearly 2 billion people on the Indian subcontinent are crazy about.

0:09.0

Cricket, as in the sport, and Berjani as in the delicious rice dish and they're both coming

0:15.4

together at the Cricket World Cup which is taking place right now. For the first time the United States is hosting part of the tournament.

0:27.0

Matches will take place in Texas, Florida, and New York.

0:31.0

The West Indies will be hosting the games too.

0:35.5

Reporter Kunwer Koldun Shaheid has been watching a lot of cricket in his hometown in

0:40.9

Pakistan where the game has always been a big deal.

0:45.0

My home team, the Lahore calendars wereers, were the two-time defending champions.

0:54.6

They did not do well this year.

0:56.6

They actually finished bottom of the league,

0:59.2

but that did not ruin the fun at the stadium.

1:01.5

One of the best parts about watching Tricott in person is eating the classic stadium meal,

1:09.0

Biryani.

1:10.0

It's a rice dish that blends local spices and seasoning, usually with meat.

1:15.0

Every spoonful is packed with Masala flavor and makes you want to rush to the next bite.

1:22.0

Biryani is to cricket what hot dogs are. next bite.

1:22.8

Biryani is to cricket what hot dogs are to American baseball.

1:27.2

And just like how different cities swear by their own style of hot dog, we on the

1:30.9

Indian subcontinent are also kind of territorial about our Burryani.

1:37.0

Veggie Burryani is more popular in India, along with chicken and mutton, but not beef.

1:43.5

In Pakistan, meat paryani is more common, but never pork.

1:49.2

These differences, meat versus vegetarian,

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