The Ethical Kitchen

I envy the Indian “tiffin box” system whereby, after workers have left their house in the morning, their families prepare a home-cooked lunch and pack it in multi-storey steel boxes secured by clips. These tiffin boxes are then collected from each home, transported to another hub, then on to another mode of transport that will take them to the worker’s address by lunch time. It is an almost miraculous network: the workplace needs no canteen and the workers enjoy freshly-made hot food cooked by their own family.
When my son and daughter begged for lunch boxes because they loathed their primary school’s catering, inwardly I groaned. Of course I wanted to give them a healthy lunch that tasted good, but the limitations on what you can provide, given that the box must leave the house with them at an early hour and remain fresh until lunchtime, are huge.

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