Switchblade has found this awesome website called Freerice which promises to donate 20 grains of rice for every vocabulary question you answer correctly.
All you have to do is guess a few synonyms, and for each correct answer you give, 10 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations World Food Program (WPF) to feed [...]
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Feeding the world, some grains of rice at a time
Published by May 9th, 2008 in Economy, Food and Recommended Links. 0 CommentsBush, India and global food prices
Published by May 5th, 2008 in Economy, Food, Globalisation, India, Media, Policy and Politics. 1 CommentRay Titus finds nothing wrong with what Bush said:
What the President was an economic fact. There was no ‘blame’, in fact his statement was a compliment to a country that is demanding better products and services for consumption. Judge for yourselves.
Arun checks reactions from across the world, including a news report from Arab News, which [...]
Smita indulges in food talk from Bangkok, mouthwatering, I must say.
I learned to call it sharifa, but the custard apple is also called Sita- phal in North India, linking it to the Ramayana mythology. Paul Kekai Manansala points out that his particular fruit may be a possible link indicating pre- Columbian encounters between India and America.
The discovery of custard apple seed at the Neolithic site [...]
Amrita learns that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
Free food is the blessing and the bane of penniless grad students. Add to that the fact that I am Indian. In my first month at Stanford, my social life revolved completely around the availability of free food. I have masqueraded as a [...]
Why is Modern India Vegetarian?
Published by March 24th, 2008 in Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Economy, Food, Government, Policy, Poverty and Religion. 0 Comments41.9% of adults belonging to the ST and 38.4 % belonging to SCs have Chronic Energy Deficiency, while the pooled average of the nation is 34.8 %. Further, 62.7 % of the children born to Scheduled Caste parents are under-weight, 57.6 % are stunted, while among the other castes it the numbers are 53.1 % [...]
RC posts on dosa joints in Bangalore. Yummy photos too.
Come twilight, the air is charged with the scent of jasmine, unnoticeably blended with the fragrance of jalebis, pav bhaji, akki roti, masala dosa, gulab jamoon, potato bonda, American baby corn and a host of other mouth watery eatables.
Yatin, a guest at Punds blog, posts on his favourite food joints in Mumbai, a list that I think can get to be fairly long!
Candies (Bandra West, Reclaimation / Bandra Pali Hill)
Moving to one of my most loved place Candies. AWESOME is the word.
[..]Located at reclaimation, next to Lilawati hospital and IES college, candies is [...]
Inji Pennu posts a photo essay after her trip to Italy. Go check it out.
My biggest surprise was the less or minimal use of plastic while serving food. Even at the smallest quick coffee shops, we got everything in china. No plastic plates, no plastic spoons and no plastic mugs.
-Wow! So, you mean you really [...]
Vikram Karve on the tea heritage of Pune and his favorite types of tea.
Outside your home, there were chiefly two types of tea for the Punekar to relish – AMRUTTULYA CHAHA at the ubiquitous Amruttulya Tea Shops at every nook and corner of Pune, and the peerless IRANI CHAI served by the numerous Irani Restaurants [...]
Wanderlust captures the widely accepted Nirvana which comes to us in the form of Maggi noodles:
For most bachelors with severely demented cooking abilities like yours truly, Maggi has always come as a saviour in moments of crisis. It was there for us in those hostel days when the mess gave us zebra fodder in the [...]
Are you a masticator or a gulper?
Published by November 4th, 2007 in Food, Humour, India and Personal. 0 CommentsChronic Worrier on her food-chewing habits.
The carrier aunty often moaned about how I chewed my food thirty two times before swallowing. (Imprinted into the sub-conscious no doubt.) She wasn’t the only one. I had a similar rep among family too. My aunts would goad my younger cousins into finishing their food faster by saying, Now [...]
Hemanshu talks about Iftar food in Purani Dilli (Old Delhi). Do not read on empty stomach.
A Hand to Mouth exsitence !!
Published by October 11th, 2007 in Culture, Food and Humour. 0 CommentsRambodoc talks about an Indian’s eating habits and in my personal opinion, beautifully describes it,
There are certain other types of human eating patterns that are even more remarkable than mine. Back in college, I had a colleague called Subramanian who used to eat with his hands, as most Indians (unlike me) do. During his meal, [...]
Shantanu compiles a list of Indian sweets and their origins
India Says has a question: what is the real issue behind global poverty - population or skewed consumption patterns across the world?
Inequalities in consumption are stark. Globally, the 20% of the world’s people in the highest-income countries account for 86% of total private consumption expenditures — the poorest 20% a minuscule 1.3%. More specifically, the [...]
Ammani writes about the delights of Maggi, and remembers the first time it was cooked at home.
You’d have thought we were at a Michael Jackson concert the way we jostled for a vantage point from which to view the noodles being cooked. They squiggled and wriggled and swam in the sauce. I was no longer [...]
It started with a joke, the substance of this post. I was having a big argument with Nasir, a friend and former colleague. Like all denizens of the Walled City, he was congenitally incapable of contemplating anything beyond Jama Masjid as a source of Kababs. So Nasir was rattling on and on as usual about [...]
Equinoise talks about an Indian Restaurant in Seattle
Spice Route’s got the goods. It is located in a massive space in a strip mall in Bellevue that seems suitable for weddings or large parties; I noticed a dance floor hidden under the lunch buffet trays, suggesting that the place doubles as a reception hall, a [...]
Apu writes a short but eloquent post on Banarasi Paan.
I am no advocate for tobacco, but I love the meetha paan - the sweet paan, with its combination of bitter leaf, sweet, sticky gulkhand and assorted spice, saffron, areca nut…
Neglect of Agriculture
Published by April 23rd, 2007 in Capitalism, Development, Economy and Food. 0 CommentsV.Isvarmurti talks about the neglect of agricultural sector under the current regime
This agri export agency with a specific mandate was established long ago. This has done some good work. But alas! In a typical Manmohan Singh style cobweb, this is now caught in a turf war among the many ministers! Everyone wants to have [...]
Vani waxes eloquent about mangoes.
The sight of juicy, yellow-gold mangoes is definitely a sight for sore eyes. And the aroma! No amount of words can describe that heavenly aroma of mangoes…
Supremus has some great tips on how to make tasty(?) Indian food in a jiffy, using just a generic gravy.
He offers some interesting variations and some useful tips too!
The exploiters are careful. They know that it is of no use in killing the farmer. Remember that the Nazis knew that concentration camp inmates had to be fed and sheltered so that they could work. Dead inmates were of little use. This is what society at large is doing….. Keeping the farmer at a [...]
If someone is wondering what I have been up to lately, the answer is - Eating.
Ojas Sabnis writes reviews of restaurants he’s been visiting lately.
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