What travels, what wilts, and what to do when there is no fridge and no microwave.
Everyday eating
Why am I so sleepy after lunch every day, and how do I stop it?
The 2 pm slump has three causes stacked on top of each other: a large, carbohydrate-heavy lunch, the glucose rise and dip that follows it, and a body clock that dips in the early afternoon anyway. Two of the three are fixable at the plate. Here is how, and when the sleepiness is a sign to get a blood test.
Ordering well
Where do I get a good salad in Surat, what should it cost, and how do I know it is fresh?
Surat eats farsan for breakfast and salad is a new habit. Here is the practical guide: the three places a salad in this city actually comes from, what a bowl costs and why, how delivery works in a city with no cold chain, and the four checks that tell you whether the bowl was made this morning.
Recipes & food ideas
I want to eat millets but I am bored of bajra roti — how else can I use them?
Millets are the grain India rediscovered and then put back into roti. They are better as a grain bowl: cooked, cooled, dressed with lemon, tossed with pulses and vegetables — a lunch that travels, holds, and carries the fibre and minerals millets are famous for. Three bowls, with the numbers.
Everyday eating
I work in Surat and I want a lunch that survives the commute and the heat.
Local, specific and honest about the constraints — the heat, the commute, the office fridge you do not have, and what a Surat kitchen can and cannot deliver to your desk.
Everyday eating
I don’t know what I’m going to eat tomorrow, so I decide at the last minute and decide badly.
Most people do not have a food problem. They have a 12.40 pm decision problem, repeated five times a week. Move the decision and the problem mostly goes away.
Everyday eating
I need a lunch that survives a desk and doesn’t wreck my afternoon.
The 3 pm crash is a lunch problem, not a sleep problem. Here is what to eat at your desk on a Surat working day — including the four we send out most.