Impact of tech on food culture

Technology impacts food patterns in every culture and revolutionizes the way we eat.

- Chinmay Damle

It affects food production, distribution, supply, and how people sell, produce, and distribute food.

The general use of automobiles in India was undoubtedly stimulated by their liberal employment at the Delhi Coronation Durbar held in 1903. Europeans and wealthy Indians began to take pleasure in whole-day trips to Karle and Bhaja caves, Khandala, Bedsa caves, Mahabaleshwar, and Panchgani, but their desire to travel in a car was stymied by the lack of eateries.

In January 1904, A.G. Cargill Gentry, the Honorary Secretary of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, set out for Poona from Bombay in his newly bought car. In India, he had found the pursuit of driving a car simply invaluable - "better than all your nostrums and panaceas for human ills, and worth no end of rupees per box", as he mentioned in his article "Motoring in India" (The Autocar, August 20, 1904).

He left in the direction of Kurla and reached Thana at about seven o'clock. The ascent up the ghats after Panvel was not very steep and the locals helped him find the right road after he took a wrong turn.

At the top of the hills was the reversing station at Khandalla, and a short run on a switchback road brought him to Lonavala where he halted for breakfast. The quaint hill station then had a couple of travellers' bungalows owned and managed by Parsee gentlemen.

They served "murghi" in a variety of sauces, eggs, an assortment of breads, curries, rice, tea, coffee, and biscuits.