India's science, from its ancient stepwells that gathered monsoon waters to the bureaucratic and algorithmic marvel that is today's
tiffin tin - based lunch delivery system, has been driven by the complex needs of a massive population making a living.
A few, however, contained ethnic food, including an Asian Indian lunch in three
tiffins (the nesting
tin cylinders used as lunchboxes in India), for which I would have traded all the lunchroom pizza in Boston, and which was happily consumed by the girl who brought it to school.