Why is there no really good bread in india?

puchoo

and has a higher nutrient value as well.

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atala

In Tamil Nadu the staple food used to be Sorghum (ragi and varugu), a type of millet which presents in a dark color when milled. It was eaten by all social classes in rural areas, and it was very healthy. Then the rich started to eat mainly white rice (with other side-dishes), and the poor imitated them which then resulted in the unimaginable tragedy of the poor who only eat rice (and nothing else) having the worst possible food, seen from a nutritional perspective.

Sorghum bread by the way is quite good, too. Similar to the German Pumpernickel.

Aishah

Brown rice, which I love, is just impossible to find here. I got some one time from a stall at Dilli Haat, but around here or Jodhpur you can't find it. And it is much better than white rice as you say Atala. I can't stand white rice - prefer millet, cornmeal or wholemeal roti.

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PeakXV

Brown rice is so full of food energy, so can't imagine why it so trendy to strip the rice of it's nutrients - I buy brown rice syrup to mix with my protein energy drinks and one can get alot of mileage out of it for sure!

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atala

Brown rice which is the first stage after hulling the rice is much heavier on the stomach, you can eat much less of it in one meal. You need to insalivate and chew it more than white rice. That is why it is seen as coarser and less refined for a refined cuisine. It also takes much longer to cook. It requires a different kind of look at food, and therefore seems to be part of a different culture.

Brown rice, or a variety called red rice is still widely used and eaten in Sri Lanka where homegrown wheat is non-existent (all wheat is imported from India et al.).

Pradeep Nayak

I liked your 'Organic food' idea. I have seen some select stores in Mumbai actyally sell organic food. But if you want organic food for masses than be prepared to face the wrath of 'politicians-pesticide tycoons-commission agent-media' combination.

Although some people like Vandana Siva are fighting for 'green' things, I don't know how many years it will take to introduce a healthy lifestyle to the Indian poor....

Captain_Neel

Bangalore may be a better place. You can sell in any price.

IVAN

Wrong! There is fantastic bread in Croatia, where the bread culture is very developed.

In fact there is excellent bread in the whole region.
For example, the American troops stationed in Hungary used to regularly send a cargo helicopter to Bosnia to fetch bread, and American soldiers on guard in Bosnia would often take a loaf of bread with them as comfort food...(I got the info from my cousin who was a doctor in the US army at the time)

Of course, by "bread" I mean something mostly looking like this , or like this ,


but NOT looking like this , which, I understand, is the Brit version of "bread"... khm...

I found almost "real bread" in Nepal, looking like the two first pictures above (slightly too puffy).

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Sailaway

Would be an interesting idea. But the most important thing would be to find out what kind of bread Indian people would appreciate. I second to sssall that bread taste is an acquired taste. When I first came to the US, I was shocked to find that I couldn't find nice bread. How could it be, they eat bread every day, right? It turned out that the "nice bread" for me was Portuguese bread or French bread, not American or British bread. Now I'm here for more than a decade and I like American and Italian bread too.

The same thing about rice. As a Japanese I pride in our shiny pearl-white rice, but I know that Indians don't like sticky rice. So I wouldn't try to go to India and sell "the best rice". Because there is no such thing.

So do some market research, find out what they like, they might just prefer their sweet bread. Of course, you can introduce new (for them) taste and they might eventually like it ... that may be fun too!

Sailaway

How about some Japanese bread!

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shere

You could also buy a breadmaker and bake your own. Only thing is you will need to have an inverter incase the electric goes whilst the machine is working.

IVAN

Pastries of various kinds are fine (these are not "Japanese" proper, just made in Japan), but before making them, one should prove that one can make "real" basic bread, because for pastries it is always possible to say that the result is what was intended in the first place, but for bread you cannot cheat - it's either "real bread", or it is clear that you don't know how to make bread...

karuna

I wonder what the market is for cheese. You know, stinky cheese. Can't have nice bread without cheese.

atala

You white bread lovers, consider this:

White Bread . . . The Awful Truth

Can white bread cause bodily damage and end lives prematurely? Here are some facts about white bread, and you be the judge.

The Startling Facts And Health Risks
of Eating White Bread
http://www.antiaginglifeextension.co...sp?a=1563&c=&p

besides: You encourage an already nutrition-poor country to add another modern health-hazard to be added to their diet.

karuna

...authored by the CEO of Flog It Health Supplement Co, Dubiousville, Alabama...

White bread is unhealthy. Hands up who didn't know that.
Bread in general is, wholemeal or otherwise. I'd just prefer to hear it from someone who isn't charging $289 for a "miracle" tonic.