Message-ID: <199612140207.WAA06545@bud.peinet.pe.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:07:42 -0400 From: Stan Sandler <mailto:sandler@CYCOR.CA> Subject: Re: Street Foods To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
I have some doubts about the wisdom of nutritionally fortifying "junk foods" for sale on the streets instead of finding ways of promoting healthy, natural indigenous products. I know that as a dairy farmer in Canada, a sizeable portion of my milk cheque is deducted for advertising the taste and benefits of milk and milk products, with young people the main target group, and most dairy farmers are happy to do this.When I have travelled in the Middle East and Asia, I have often seen vendors on the street with little charcoal braziers making kebabs or kebab like foods. Kebabs on a skewer, or hot dogs or THIN sausages, can be cooked using a parabolic trough solar cooker with a skewer running down the focus. My son built one when he was only 11 years old, and the materials are only two small scraps of plywood or board for the parabolic ends; the reflector is one sheet of aluminium type-transfer sheet from a newspaper printer (twenty five to fifty cents usually, got to clean the ink off); a piece of heavy wire for a skewer; a bit of scrap wood for a stand; and two dowels or rounds sticks to rotate the trough on. The little pieces cook fairly quickly, since almost all the sunlight falling on the trough is focused along the skewer. The flavour suffers from the lack of smoke, but a spicy sauce can make up for this. The trough is only about two feet long and weighs less than five pounds. I think that it might be worth someone trying it as an appropriate project for street children.
Regards, Stan Sandler Dairy farmer and commercial beekeeper in Prince Edward Island, Canada and a new member of devel-l.