Feeding the City : Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Sara Roncaglia (auth)
• التنسيق: الكتروني فصل الكتاب
• اللغة: الإنجليزية
• منشور في: Open Book Publishers
• الموضوعات: Dabbawalas; Mumbai; food culture; India
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Every day in Mumbai 6,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, th...