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FARM TO FORK TREND IN THE CULINARY BUSINESS!

The article delineates various trends surfacing in the food industry in a post-COVID environment, like online food delivery and increased health-consciousness. The focus is primarily on the “Farm to Fork” concept, emphasizing local sourcing, sustainability, transparency, and seasonality of food. While this concept enjoys growing popularity in metropolitan cities like Mumbai, it faces challenges like supply chain logistics, seasonal variability, price sensitivity, and balancing tradition with innovation. The recipe suggestions employing the Farm to Fork concept center on using local, seasonal, and sustainable ingredients.

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DEEPAVALI DELIGHTS 2023

Deepavali, or Diwali, is a vital Hindu festival symbolizing the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Celebrated worldwide, festivities include decorating homes, prayers, sharing sweets, fireworks, gift-giving, charity, cultural events, and cleaning. Deepavali also signifies prosperity, renewal, and unity. Indian sweets, or mithai, play a significant role in the celebration, symbolizing joy, divine blessings, affection, cultural preservation, auspiciousness, and abundance.

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Clean Drinking Water: A Necessity Increasingly Difficult to Fulfill

The paucity of an essential invisible – clean drinking water – is threatening the very existence of homo sapiens. India finds itself at the 120th rank among 122 countries in the Water Quality Index. Three-fourths of rural households find it difficult to get drinking water in India. In large tracts of remote and arid regions of India having high solar irradiance, especially the Thar Desert, Solar Thermal Desalination technology can play a crucial role in fulfilling the needs of the local communities. Strong local institutions and community participation would become the key to their success. The government must encourage private players to provide technological solutions to tackle the water crisis while ensuring that the accessibility of clean drinking water remains a basic and universal right, instead of becoming a paid service.

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Major Shift to Vegetarian Diet Needed for a Healthy Life and Mitigating Climate Change

The global community is facing some of the most monumental challenges that relate to the herculean task of mitigating climate change and mopping out enormous air and water pollution with which many nations of the world, including India, are suffering. A 2019 IPCC report states that non-animal sourced food, including meat, poultry, and seafood alone account for reducing eight gigatons of CO2 per year. Further, the World Cancer Research Fund has recommended that people around the world should reduce their intake of red meats to less than three portions per week, and all intake of processed meat should be eliminated. Today, when the dependence on allopathic medicines for curing ailments and diseases is causing a serious concern due to multi-drug resistance and their side effects, the natural system of a healthy vegetarian diet integrated with herbs and spices forms a more natural solution for creating high immunity and, thus, assuring good health and longevity. Be Vegetarian, Be Healthy.

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