<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>In early 1960s in Delhi there was a custom that in most of the localities a man used to run a </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Tandoor in the evening. People staying nearby would bring their dough and get their bread </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">(Rotis) or nan cooked. He would charge 1 paisa per bread. It saved the housewife the </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">botheration of cooking bread and saved her from heat in the summers. In those times most </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">houses had coal and wood stoves and so the pollution and heat was unbearable. There were</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">thousands of such tandoors all over Delhi.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">As the LPG became ubiquitous this tradition stopped. Sometimes for a little extra the man would also</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">cook vegetables on his tandoor.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Anil K Rajvanshi<div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On 08-Dec-2016, at 12:49 PM, Traveller <<a href="mailto:miata98@gmail.com">miata98@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/Chennai-shuts-but-Amma-Canteens-feed-the-hungry/article16769683.ece" target="_blank"> Chennai shuts, but Amma Canteens feed the hungry</a>, </font>The Hindu 7 December 2016<div><br></div><div>Jayalalithaa - a Tamil movie actress who went on to become a corrupt but populist Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu died a few days ago. One of her signature pro-poor initiative was Mother's Canteens, (in Tamil <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Unavagam" target="_blank">Amma Unavagam</a>, also commonly known as Amma Canteens). BBC had a story - <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36659670" style="font-family:georgia,serif" target="_blank">Amma canteen: Where an Indian meal costs only seven cents</a> 4 July 2016, and NYT reported a long time back <a href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/tamil-nadu-chief-minister-provides-cheap-food-to-help-win-voters/?_r=0" style="font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif" target="_blank">In Tamil Nadu, Politics Meets Idli</a><font style="font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><a href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/tamil-nadu-chief-minister-provides-cheap-food-to-help-win-voters/?_r=0" style="font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif" target="_blank">s</a> </font>7 May 2013 on this program "aimed at the poor to provide nutritious, wholesome, cheap food.<br><br>The news item today claims "Most of the Amma Canteens in the State are in Chennai. But overall they serve an estimated 3 lakh (300,000 - ND) people every day. A meal costs Rs 5 and idlis come at Rs. 1 a piece. Even push cart vendors cannot afford to reduce the price of idlis to less than Rs.4 a piece."<br><br>I am happy to report - or rant, as Ron would complain - that over the last three years, Jayalalithaa's Amma Canteens, burning LPG instead of biomass, has protected 500,000 trees, plus prevented 90,000 premature deaths (from reduced pollution as well as better, safer nutrition, usually to the needy). <br><br>I think that is more than the celebrated "stove science" of Ron Larson can claim in a comparable period. <br><br>Anil Rajvanshi had the right idea -- the working poor don't have the luxury of cooking fresh, nutritious meals every day. <br><br>Contextually speaking, mass cooking (subsidized or not) and collective kitchens, make a lot more sense in the growing urban areas of the poor countries. <br><br>There will always be some poor with the luxury of entertaining luxurious "scientists".<br><br>Bluntly put, the claims of "dirty cooking" killing 4 million people annually and the promises of saving such people by 100 million clean cookstoves (most, no thanks to GACC), are plain lies. </div><div><br></div><div>Nikhil<br><div><h1 class="gmail-m_4336393271968183039gmail-m_8609079150537223281gmail-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:15px 30px 0px;line-height:36px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:920px;letter-spacing:-0.5px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);font-weight:normal;outline:0px"><font><div style="font-size:large;font-family:tundraweb,serif"><div class="gmail-m_4336393271968183039gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></h1></div></div></div>
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