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  • A man cooking meat on an Indian barbeque. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A man sitting on top of a device for cooking (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients receiving their allocation of blankets and cooking equipment. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The British front (?), Tigris, Iraq, (formerly Mesopotamia): soldiers in the Indian cooking area of the trenches. Photograph by P.F. Gow, 1916 (?).
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Basra, Iraq: the Indian General Hospital: milk is served from large metal bowls to waiting men outside the Indian cook house (a straw hut). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen Island (South Indian Ocean), Captain Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery in the bay. Engraving by J. Newton, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Healthy eating with Afro-Caribbean foods / Parkside Health Promotion Centre.
  • Healthy eating with Afro-Caribbean foods / Parkside Health Promotion Centre.
  • Healthy eating with Afro-Caribbean foods / Parkside Health Promotion Centre.
  • Women carrying water pots
  • A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • The death of Captain James Cook: a man is fighting off his attackers with the butt of a rifle, men in a boat behind him are firing rifles at those on shore. Engraving, 1794, by I. Hall and I. Thornthwaite and S. Smith after G. Carter.
  • A couple preparing tandoori rotis: the woman faces the tandoor and shapes the bread with her hands as she nurses her baby, whilst the man kneeds the dough. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A cook-house surrounded by men in turbans, at a (military ?) ferry post, in the Suez Canal area (?). Photograph by J. D. Graham, 1914/1918.