First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Nutrition
-
Hankering for more
Industry is forcing bad calories upon people, especially the poor
-
Ragi is back but only as exotica
No body knows for sure how the ragi bandwagon started, but all of a sudden the urban elite became curious about the grain. Today, it is being minutely scrutinised by a few truth seekers while eateries make a beeline for its cuisine
-
Agony in disguise
ALL beer guzzlers bewarel This popular drink may after all be a repository of carcinogenic chemicals like nitroso- dimethylamine, according to scientists of the Hyderabad-based
-
Recipe
Fry a little leaf or a chopped bulb of a onion, four-five chillies and half a bay leaf. Add about 100 gm of rice, a few leaves or corms of <i>Colacasia</i>, a slice of fresh bamboo shoot, slivers of <i>Benincasa hipida</i> and <i>Langenaria cineria</i> fruits and handful of pea seeds; sprinkle a pinch of sodium bicarbonate and a teaspoon of salt. <br>
-
Food for oil
By giving up on traditional oils, we lose out on nutrition
-
Food processing industry takes a toll on country's health
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Eating at home isn't the in thing anymore. Hanging out is hip, especially in the mushrooming fast food joints that blister the skylines of India's cities. The urban middle classes with money to burn are redefining nouvelle cuisine. The costs are huge but few are counting the calories fewer still checking the nutrition chart.
-
Inedible India
<img src="../files/images/20070331/30.jpg" ="inedible" align="left"/> Eating habits, cooking habits, cuisines have changed, are changing, across the country, across social strata, across the rural-urban divide. And for anybody’s money, it isn’t a change to inspire confidence in the future of public health.<br>
-
Marketing bad health
<img src="../files/images/20070331/36.jpg" ="valley" align="left"/>The price-nutrition dynamic plays out differentially in the developed and developing worlds. In the former, as a number of studies have noted, fast food constitutes a much greater proportion of the diet of the poor.
-
Salt of the earth
Bombay HC stays Centre s notification on iodised salt
-
Past repast
Earlier, most people ate what was locally available: fish, for example, was a staple in coastal areas, and people living in, or close to, fertile agricultural tracts preferred grains. Classical cuisines are often a good indicator of local food preferences, even if we account for the caveat that these were very often on the plates of the well-to-do. Food was sourced locally. <br>