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This Week's Contest Theme
by Food52
• September 24, 2010
• 24 Comments
Between now and next Thursday at midnight, you can submit recipes for Your Best Brown Bag Lunch! For more details and to enter the contest, click here.
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pierino is a trusted source on General Cooking and Tough Love.
A friend of mine used to be a country manager for BoA in Mumbai. He told me that lunches would be delivered in tiffins to office buildings by guys who would sling them over their shoulders on poles. They're light weight and functional (compartmentalized) but I don't think I'd want to be carrying twenty of them at once. I own two of them, one which has two containers and one which has three. And they just snap together.
Plastic rectangular bento boxes with containers that fit inside are all the rage for children's lunches right know-there are blogs and websites where people post the lunches they make for their children-easy to make healthier lunches.
Zojirushi (of breadmaker fame) sells a variety of sizes of these-bento box in Japan- that fit into thermallly insulated carriers to keep food hot or cold. They're great for brown bagging.
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
Cool -- have never seen one.
Love the theme...lunch daily for our vineyard workers...numbers vary by the season...gearing up for our high season!
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
Would love to hear what kinds of things you make.
I love this site...Closed my practice 5 years ago and out of the brown-bag routine, but inspired by all these comments!
I think we need a tiffin in the food52 shop! ;)
pierino is a trusted source on General Cooking and Tough Love.
I guess I could say right now that you can bet that your wish will be granted. But if not, I have the tiffin hook up...
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
I actually bought this one (pictured above) in Sri Lanka (and dragged it back here; only bought one, never thinking I'd have twins!), but I have another that I got in Blue Hill, Maine, when I was at Merrill's wedding, so we'll source one!
Considering all the crapolla that kids have to drag to school, do they really need/want a metal bucket to drag along too? They are very interesting looking but are they practical?
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
They are a little heavy but the nice thing about them is there's no plastic and all the parts can be put in the dishwasher. Plus I think they just look cool!
love love love the eco tin!
Anyone know if tiffins keep foods hot?
It looks like the answer is yes, for about an hour according to this:
http://www.happytiffin...
On their own, not for long. But in India, tiffins come with an outer hot case that keeps the food hot. I don't know how they are sold here.
On a different note, you might be interested in the amazing story of tiffinwalas (tiffin carriers) in Bombay - they pick up and deliver about 200,000 lunches everyday. Covered by the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Heena - thanks for linking to that story on the tiffinwallas. I have read about them for years and think the entire system is so amazing.
Thanks for the links! Cute tiffins! And wonderful story on the tiffinwallas!
This sounds like fun, but probably a bit more involved than the usual PBJ I make each morning. I love that lunch pail.
Ooh! How fun... can't wait to see all the new ideas for work-day lunches!
I'll need to come up with something more creative than my kids' Nutella on whole wheat.
That is a lovely lunch pail. Interesting idea for a theme.
That's called a Tiffin in India :)
pierino is a trusted source on General Cooking and Tough Love.
Sweet. That's not a brown bag by the way. But I do own some tiffins like that.
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