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INDIA
Food Availability and Selection
India is an extremely vast country. ...
With independence, the princely kingdoms merged into one country, India. ...
India is in that sense very similar to Europe, with each state rather like each European nation, having not only it’s own language, culture and foods, but it’s own history, it’s own unique geography and it’s own set of dominant religions. ...
India’s cuisine is as rich and diverse as her people. ...
India is well known for it’s tradition of vegetarianism which has a history spanning more than two millennia. ... But at the beginning of the Epic period, beef was said to be common food that added vigour, not only to the body but also the mind. ... Vegetarianism became more linked with the cuisines of southern India, rather than the north.
To date, India has received the equivalent of $13 billion in U. ... 6 billion in 1960 when food aid accounted for 92% of the annual assistance budget. As India became self-sufficient in food production and expanded it’s industrial capability and infrastructure, the need for U. ... In the 1980 and 1990s, USAID’s average annual budget for India was $157 million and targeted key sectors, such as science and technology transfer, capital market development, health and women’s status. ... assistance declined, India is still looked upon as a poorer nation relying heavily on other countries support. ...
Eating from a ‘thali’ (a metal plate or banana leaf) is quite common in most parts of India. Both the North Indian and South Indian thali contain small bowls arranged inside the rim of the plate (or leaf), each filled with a different sort of spiced vegetarian food, curd and sweet.
Approximate Word count = 1388
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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