When Cooking Dinner is A Matter of Life and Death

When Cooking Dinner is a Matter of Life and Death

I chanced upon this article while doing my daily news read. It brings to mind how lucky we are to be in this part of the world where not only do we enjoy the material comforts of having gas brought to our flats so that we don't have to use charcoal for cooking purposes, accessibility to a microwave oven to cook or heat our food easily, we can also easily get a wide variety of food at fast food outlets, food courts and other F&B establishments.

Very often than not, we are so used to our lifestyle that we are oblivious to the fact that this is not the case in many developing countries and we take what we have for granted. Being an educator and especially a Home Economics teacher, I take it that it is my responsibility to be aware about such disparities in the world and to bring in some of these real-work facts for the students.

Hopefully this will make our students more appreciative of the smallest of the comforts that they enjoy in this privileged part of the world.