Traditional Asian food customs
Abstract
Journal of Human Nutrition (1977) 31, 245-248. BDA STUDY CONFERENCE TraditionalAsian food customs Sandra HUNT, BSc (Nut) Research Assistant, Department of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College (University of London), Atkins Building, Campden Hill, London, W 8 7AH. ASIANS FIRST BEGAN to migrate to Britain during the Second World War; through the next decade there was a gradual build up of immigration from the Indian sub-continent. The original migrants financed travel for male relatives and village friends and provided help as they arrived. Because of this immigrants tended t o come from only a few areas within India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, such as IVhrpur, Sylhet, Gularat and the Punjab (Rose, 1969). It also meant that the migrants settled in distinctive communities where they are still found today, eg Gujaratis in Leicester. In the early 60s the flow of male migrants from India and Pakistan was curtailed and those already here began to bring their dependants; with the arrival of women and children came the first reports of nutritional deficiencies (Dunnigan) et al., 1962). Migration in the 70s has been composed mostly of East African Asians who have come as families, including old people; these latter have recently begun to present