[Stoves] News: Feeding the poor to save their lives by modern cooking

[Traveller]

Anil:

Ron must be so awfully grieved, terribly disappointed. You engage in such
unprofessional behavior -- making claims without peer reviews? I even see
so much animosity against empowerment of women -- you revel in "a man"
doing the cooking. (I imagine there are still quite a few of those, just
that men don't make pretty pictures GACC wants to sell to collect money.)

Those men averted many DALYs by reducing indoor air pollution of women. The
unsung martyrs of the cooking revolutions past.

Maybe some women professors would take interest in documenting the burden
of disease for adult male cooks. GACC, BBC, and Practical Action
notwithstanding, it's not as if only women's photos are science.

They can sell aDALYs for $, reduced by the men's income, no, Crispin?

Even I remember something else from the Delhi of early 1960s, my trips
there two summers. Eateries for travellers from all over India, and for
workers poor and not-so-poor.

Breadmaking was "outsourced" from homes a long time ago all over the rich
world and now in the poor countries - be it injeras in Ethiopia (just got
my freshly imported pack with 100% teff, a gluten-free), loaves and cakes
in colonized Africa or Vanuatu, or naans in Afghanistan.

And that was when the lady of the house couldn't push a daughter-in-law or
hired help into the kitchen. (Mrs Clinton famously didn't bake cookies, in
case we forget.)

Escaping indoor heat is undoubtedly a major selling point now for electric
induction stoves in Delhi and other Indian cities. I am told it is possible
to make rotis and naans on those too, but I never tried (because I can't
roll).

Nikhil


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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Nariphaltan <nariphaltan at gmail.com> wrote:

> In early 1960s in Delhi there was a custom that in most of the localities
> a man used to run a Tandoor in the evening. People staying nearby would
> bring their dough and get their bread (Rotis) or nan cooked. He would
> charge 1 paisa per bread. It saved the housewife the
> botheration of cooking bread and saved her from heat in the summers. In
> those times most houses had coal and wood stoves and so the pollution and
> heat was unbearable. There were thousands of such tandoors all over Delhi.
>
> As the LPG became ubiquitous this tradition stopped. Sometimes for a
> little extra the man would also cook vegetables on his tandoor.
>
> Anil K Rajvanshi
>
>
>
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