School tiffins: Health food choices take priority as parents and schools try options to keep the lunch box interesting
Anoothi Vishal
Three-year-old Aryan Singh has just started going to Sanskriti School, Delhi. His favourite tiffin: A modest sandwich on which mom Smita draws a smiley face everyday, with ketchup.
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Comments OffCurating a monsoon food and art festival at The Park New Delhi has been fun and a good learning experience. I discovered the importance of seasonal foods in our cooking traditions…
Seasonal diets have always been an intrinsic part of Indian regional cuisine(s). While we may not have had codified “kitchen literature”, and recipes and methods of cooking may have been passed down generations simply through word of mouth, Ayurveda, the “science of medicine” and food, undoubtedly played a significant role in how Indian families across the country cooked and ate.
Posted in Cuisines, Culture in India, Eat Healthy, Luxury Tags: Agrarian World, Art Festival, Art Literature, Climactic Conditions, Cuisines Of India, Curating, Family Recipes, Food Community, Ganpati, Golen, Indian Families, Methods Of Cooking, Monsoons In India, Odd Shower, Onam, Rakshabandhan, Regional Cuisine, Savouries, Seasonal Foods, Teej Comments OffChicken soup is what mothers recommend, not to mention Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, each time you feel a little low — whether from a bout of flu or from the business of living. But my all-time favourite is a variation of it — a chicken sweet-corn soup, that staple of Indian-Chinese food across India.
Posted in Cuisines, Eat Healthy Tags: Canned Corn, Canned Crab, Chaat Masala, Chicken Soup, Chicken Sweet Corn Soup, Chillies, Chinese Food, Concoction, Coriander, Cornflour, Dalal, Fortune Cookie, Fresh Seafood, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Noida, Soya, Suburbian, Sweet Corn Soup, Vegetarians 1 Comment »A presenter of BBC2’s Indian Food Made Easy, Anjum Anand is as attractive as some of the recipes photographed for this beautifully brought out book—with photographs by Vanessa Courtier. Anjum’s show was being aired on Discovery Travel and Living in India and the book was brought out alongside, or at least that’s how I laid my hands on it.
Posted in C'Wealth Cuisines, Eat Healthy, Recipes Tags: Anjum Anand, Bbc2, Bread Crumbs, Burgers, Chicken Meat, Chicken Section, Chicken Tikka, Chilli Chicken, Chutneys, Courtier, Discovery Travel, Indian Food, Indian Spices, Lamb Kebabs, Lamb Section, Lentils, Lettuce, Light Meals, Succulent Chicken, Yoghurt Comments OffWhen the going is not good, financially, the world just gets fatter—has been a finding in the US. The reason is not hard to look for: With lesser money to spend on “non essentials”, jobs on the line and fears of more loss, people cut back on healthier but more expensive dining options; fresh fish, nuts, fruits and veggies.
Posted in Eat Healthy Tags: Cheap Burgers, Dabba, Economic Necessity, Empty Calories, Everyman, Financial Situation, Fresh Fish, Fruits And Veggies, Happy Meal, Obesity And Health Risks, Parathas, Relative Poverty, Roti, Sambhar, Samosa, Unhealthy Eating, Value Meals, Western Paradigm, Wholesome Food, Young Kids 1 Comment »
