Friday 29 April 2016

All about Food





Food is a must for human race. The human body needs good food to subsist. It is essential for the survival and to lead healthy life. Good food makes the body strong. When we go to restaurants, we see and hear about various cuisines ranging from say – Continental, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Turkish, Arabic, etc. Food is cooked with different ingredients, herbs and spices and served in style to satisfy the customers and their palate. Here we touch upon some of the food and their cooking style.

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Breakfast: It is said, having a good breakfast as it is the first meal of the day. Eating breakfast helps in weight management. It not only fuels the body to help provide energy, better concentration and problem solving ability throughout the busy day. Eating a breakfast is also good for the brain and the body. It is said that if you skip breakfast, you tend to have a short attention span, lack of alertness, longer reaction time, low blood sugar and decreased work productivity. Surely, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Have a good and balanced breakfast. Remember, it’s one of the biggest nutritional mistakes some people make by skipping breakfast.

Beverage: A glass of fresh juice is high in vitamins, which energises you and quenches your thirst. It is good for health and helps to increase your pleasure of eating. Juice is a hundred per cent fruit content. Juice drinks are juice diluted with sugar acid syrup with acidity up to 1 per cent and suspended solids about 10-12 per cent.

Coffee & Tea: Most of the people love coffee or tea as it delights their palate. Even in ancient civilization, the consumption of this magic drink has been recorded. Tea was first discovered in China. The belief is that one day a tea leaf fell by mistake into the boiling water, the Chinese were so happy with the outcome that even today there are certain places where fresh tea leaves are directly put into boiling water to create this delightful drink.

Coffee was officially discovered in Ethiopia and it did not take long before the whole world was enchanted by its taste and aroma. Both tea and coffee acts as a stimulant for the brain and the body too. Though coffee and tea are not so vital for our existence, but it can make a great difference in our lives. Some people get so addicted that they must have their cup of tea or coffee in the morning and evening.


Pasta: Most of us have heard about pasta and eaten it too. Pasta is widespread in Argentina and Brazil especially in the areas with strong Italian roots. Pasta made its way to the new world through English who discovered it while touring Italy. Pasta is a generic term for food made from unleavened dough of wheat or buckwheat, water and sometimes other ingredients like egg and vegetable extract. Pasta includes noodles in various lengths, widths and shapes. It is generally served with sauce. The sauce and type of pasta are usually matched based on consistency and ease in eating. Two common spaghetti dishes served in Japan are Bolognese and Neapolitan. In India, Macaroni has been adopted and cooked with a local touch and flavor.

Mughlai Cuisine: The Mughlai Cuisine comes from the kitchens of the ancient Mughul emperors and aristocracy. The cuisine dominates in the northern part of India and has strong influences of Muslim cooking. In fact, Indian cuisine, especially meat is predominantly influenced by the cooking style practiced during the Mughul era. Mughlai food is known for its richness. It is famous for the exotic use of spices, dried fruit and nuts. Mughlai dishes have a distinct aroma and taste of ground and whole spices. Mughlai food occupies a commanding position in the popular cuisines of India. The rich preparation of Mughlai food consisting of flavored sauces and butter based curries are tempting that food lovers are bound to crave for more. It offers an amazingly delicious variety of food ranging from hot spicy shorba, Kababs or soup to ginger based roasted meats to kulfi with rose petals sprinkled on it.

South Indian Cuisine: South Indian cuisine is a term used to refer to the cuisines found in the four southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The common factor in the cuisine of the four states is rice as the staple food. The use of lentils and spices with dried red chilies and fresh chilies, coconut and native fruits and vegetables like tamarind, plantain, snake gourd, garlic and ginger, etc. Overall, all the cuisine of the four states have much in common and differ mostly in the spiciness or hotness of the food.

Andhra, Chettinad, Tamil, Hyderabadi, Mangalorean and Kerala cuisines, each have a distinct taste and method of cooking. Some popular dishes include biryani, ghee rice with meat curry, seafood – prawns, mussels, mackerel, etc, and paper-thin pathiris from the Malabar area. These distinct cuisines are very popular.

Tandoor: The tandoor is used for cooking certain types of Iranian, Afghani, Pakistani and Indian foods such as local bread known as roti, Tandoor chicken and Chicken tikka. The tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used for cooking and baking found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. The heat in the tandoor was traditionally generated by charcoal fire or wood fire burning within the tandoor itself. Temperature of the tandoor can go up to 480 degrees centigrade. The oldest example of a tandoor was found in the Harappa and Mohenjo Daro settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation. Tandoori chicken is a roasted chicken delicacy that originated in the North Western India. It later became a popular Punjabi dish during the time of the Mughal Empire in central and southern Asia. In many Indian and Pakistani restaurants, red tandoori chicken is generally served with sliced onions and lemon.

Chinese Cuisine: Now Chinese cuisine is popular around the world. The Chinese cuisine takes us back to the Chinese stone age where cultivation of rice and the production of noodles both typical representation of Chinese cuisine were found. Since Chinese cuisine has become popular, you can find Chinese restaurant in every major city of the world. The history of Chinese cuisine is an interesting one, unlike many cultures believe that the preparation of food is an art, Chinese food is authentic and probably the healthiest food. Good Chinese food is prepared and cooked with polyunsaturated oils. Authentic Chinese food does not require the use of milk fat ingredients such as cream, butter and cheese. Meat is used but not in abundance. Rice was first farmed in China along the Yang-tse river as early as about 5000 BC. They cooked rice by boiling it in water.

Dessert: Normally after a good meal, you have a dessert to finish off your lunch or dinner. Dessert refers to the last course of a meal. It usually consists of fruits, cheese or sweetmeat or all three. It is derived from an old French term which means ‘clear the table’. The two basic reasons why dessert is always served last apart from tradition is, enjoying dessert right at the end of a sumptuous meal actually gives time to your digestive system, and secondly, eating dessert last also slows down the absorption of the sugar from the dessert to your body.

The term dessert is generally used in USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia and France, but in UK, the term sweet pudding and afters are more commonly used. The first ice cream parlour in America opened in New York City in 1776. Now it is a common practice all over the world to have a dessert at the end of a meal.

Also read:  Taste of South India









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Can all the nuclear bombs wipe out humanity?

It’s always said a nuclear war will wipe out humanity and will bring about the end of this world. Nothing that humans do will wipe out humanity off  the face of Earth, writes American astronomer Seth Shostak in Quartz. Even if all the nuclear powers used all their bombs together, billions of us would survive.

10,000 is the approximate number of nuclear weapons in the world at present and 7.5 billion is the current human population. The worst-case scenario will be 1.6 billion deaths. 6 billion will survive, roughly equal to the world population in 1999.




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Thursday 21 April 2016

The Story of Exemplary Courage of a Young Martyr


  
Most of you must not have heard of Jaswant Singh Rawat, and the supreme sacrifice he made for the country almost about fifty three years ago. Very few from later generations even know about the bravery and courage he exhibited against heavy odds. Jaswant Singh Rawat, a 22-year-old soldier who was martyred in the 1962 Indo-China war. In the battle of Nuranang which started on November 17. His heroics is part of folk lore. The brave soldier who stood his ground till he was killed the battle.

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During the 1962 Indo-China war, on November 17th, the battalion came under heavy attack from the Chinese army near the Nuranang valley. Armed with a medium machine gun, the Chinese army were firing at the A company from a higher vantage point and a huge target area was covered by the gun creating havoc on the Indian troops. The gun had to be silenced before it could cause more damage to the Indians.

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To counter the attack, a small team comprising of Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat along with Lance Naik Trilok Singh Negi and Rifleman Gopal Singh Gusain were assigned the mission of recovering the MMG from the Chinese bunker with full force. While Lance Naik Trilok Singh Negi provided cover fire with his sten gun, Rifleman Jaswant Singh and Rifleman Gopal Singh hurled grenades at the enemy. After the attack, they managed to kill the Chinese soldiers and destroyed the enemy bunker and capture the MMG.

Jaswant Singh Rawat, the young rifleman of the 4 Garhwal, along with the two brave soldiers held their post for 72 hours, 21 km from the Sela Pass near Tawang and killing over 300 Chinese soldiers from the assault. According to some reports, a wounded Jaswant was eventually captured and shot. But by then Indian army reinforcements arrived stopping the Chinese progress into Arunachal Pradesh. His act of bravery was responsible for stopping the Chinese over running through Arunachal Pradesh.


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For their acts of bravery, they were honoured with gallantry awards. Jaswant Singh was posthumously decorated with a Mahavir Chakra, but over half a century after his untimely demise, the Indian army continues to treat him as a serving officer. He gets regular promotions as the army believes he still guards India’s Eastern border. It’s a story of exemplary courage and patriotism. Jaswant Singh was a real hero and to commemorate him the locals and the army built a memorial and a temple at the spot where he was shot; the place was named Jaswantgarh. And folks continue to talk of him as if he were still alive. The memorial has his original bed which is made up every day by one of the army jawans posted at the post. His shoes are polished every day, letters from admirers brought to ‘Baba’ and taken away the next day ‘after he has gone through them.’  The personal items of Rifleman Jaswant Singh are on display there and all travelers are served with hot tea by the Indian army soldiers near the memorial.

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A report about a new biopic on rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat is expected to roll towards the year-end is out. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s biopic on Jaswant Singh Rawat is all set to roll around September. A source close to the development revealed that Jaswant’s brother is on board to help with details of his life. His mother, who passed away recently, was also assisting with the research over the last two years. Director Sanjay Khanduri has almost completed the script. Hope this biopic would be a true homage to this great son of India.





 

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Oil for all seasons:

Today there are many branded and attractively packaged oils, but coconut oil has been used in India, especially coastal areas for ages. It is a multi purpose oil, used in cooking, hair care, skin care, massaging and even medication too.

It suits all hair and it nourishes the hair, boosting hair growth, helps to rid of dandruff, dry scalp and providing nutrition and giving a shiny sheen to hair.

It is also good for skin care, especially people with dry skin. It tends to keep the skin smooth, soft, supple and glowing.

It's excellent for body massage. People apply it normally or sometimes warm it a bit. Either way it works for your body, hair and skin. A weekly application is ideal.

And the best thing about coconut oil is, its natural. In the coastal states its still widely used. Forget the branded oils, cream and gel, try coconut oil and feel the difference. And it's back in fashion too not only in India but abroad too.

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