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A food truck is a large motorized vehicle (such as a van or multi-stop truck) or trailer equipped to store, transport, cook, prepare, serve and/or sell food. [1] [2]Some food trucks, such as ice cream trucks, sell frozen or prepackaged food, but many have on-board kitchens and prepare food from scratch, or they reheat food that was previously prepared in a brick and mortar commercial kitchen.
When literally translated, the word "dabbawala" means "one who carries a box". "Dabba" means a box (usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container) from Persian: دَبّه, while "wala" is an agentive suffix, denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word. [6]
The history of Indian cuisine consists of cuisine of the Indian subcontinent, which is rich and diverse.The diverse climate in the region, ranging from deep tropical to alpine, has also helped considerably broaden the set of ingredients readily available to the many schools of cookery in India.
Although ancient India had a significant urban population, much of India's population resided in villages, whose economies were largely isolated and self-sustaining. [citation needed] Agriculture was the predominant occupation and satisfied a village's food requirements while providing raw materials for hand-based industries such as textile, food processing and crafts.
"History of Food," Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, Blackwell Publishing, 1994. "Culture and Cuisine: A Journey Through the History of Food," Jean François Revel, Doubleday, 1982. "The Agrarian History of England and Wales," Edward John T. Collins, Stuart Piggott, Joan Thirsk , Cambridge University Press, 1981.
The Indian jute industry, in turn, was modernised during the British Raj in India. [3] The region of Bengal was the major centre for Jute cultivation, and remained so before the modernisation of India's jute industry in 1855, when Kolkata became a centre for jute processing in India. [3]
The Greek diplomat Megasthenes (c. 300 BC)—in his book Indika— provides a secular eyewitness account of Indian agriculture: [5] India has many huge mountains which abound in fruit-trees of every kind, and many vast plains of great fertility. . . .
Although street food is common all over India, street food in Mumbai is noted because people from all economic classes eat on the roadside almost round the clock and it is sometimes felt that the taste of street food is better than restaurants in the city. [3] [4] [5] Many Mumbaikars like a small snack on the road in the evening. [6]