Fluid practices and functions linked with traditional cuisine Busri in Sindh- Pakistan

Some foods play essential symbolic functions in certain practices some communities. Busri – a Sindhi traditional cuisine Sindh, Pakistan, has various unexplored the social, cultural, and religious contexts which it been served. The article uses archival data collected from Adbi Board. paper applies Robert Merton’s concept of manifest latent to understand busri as social cultural phenomenon further analyses whether performed perform any role bring change communities (as Merton had asserted). reportedly religious, health-related functions. However, argues that scale these is neither large nor mandatory. also lacked serve community’s unintended purposes. Therefore, once remained regular part communities’ practices, disappearing rural areas where considered delicacy rich class.