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A dabbawala (also spelled dabbawalla or dabbawallah, called tiffin wallah in older sources) is a worker who delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in India, especially in Mumbai. The dabbawalas constitute a lunchbox delivery and return system for workers in Mumbai.
In the summer, low-income children may require nutrition away from home. If parents are at work, and there are limited food sources at home, children have fewer options for healthy, balanced meals. Coupled with programming or interactive activities, library meal programs are providing children with healthy lunches and opportunities for learning.
A dinner train is a relatively new type of tourist train service whose main purpose is to allow people to eat dinner while experiencing a relatively short, leisurely round trip train ride. This contrasts with conventional passenger trains, whose main purpose is to transport passengers to some destination as quickly as possible but which also ...
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
A dining car on an Austrian inter-city train in 2008. A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant.
During meal times (11:00-13:00 and 17:00-19:00), car attendants walk down the aisle of the train with a trolley, asking if there are passengers who would like a bento in Mandarin and Hokkien. The containers were originally made of stainless steel, which were returned and washed after the contents had been consumed. However, due to exceedingly ...
In the United States, an informal meeting at work, over lunch, where everyone brings a packed lunch, is a brown-bag lunch or colloquially a "brown bag". One of the earliest references to this type of meal is found in the Bible, where it is said that the prophet Habakkuk, then in Judea, prepared oatmeal and pieces of bread in a basket to take as ...
The meals cost approximately one-fifth of the cost of a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE), [3] or US$4.70 in 2012. [4] The rations were first used in Bosnia in 1993 as part of Operation Provide Promise. [5] The meals are designed to be able to survive being air-dropped without a parachute. [3]