Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Tiffination

Indians are taking over the world!! The Times reports that Mumbai's dhabbawallas are making inroads in the Bay Area and New York. Admittedly, the U.S. version of the lunch-delivery system lacks the elegance of the original, a 120-year-old trade in which men transport some 200,000 tiffins (lunch boxes), prepared by mothers or wives or kitchen servants, to office workers in downtown Mumbai. Over here, it's just a glorified, home-cooked take-out service. But the article does confirm one thing I've been telling my friends for years: restaurant Indian food cannot compare to Mom's.


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