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FREE LUNCHBOX: THE STORY OF YOUR FOOD PDF Christine Butterworth,Lucia Gaggiotti | 32 pages | 03 Jul 2013 | Walker Books Ltd | 9781406319934 | English | London, United Kingdom Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food - MTA Catalogue View Saved Carts to access any items you may have previously added Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food your cart. Know your product codes? Use our quick order entry. This item can be found on catalogue page: The product exists in the following catalogues:. Browse Learning. E-mail address:. Social Media Facebook Instagram. Email Us help parentdirect. Empty Shopping Cart. All Product General Info. Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food. A look at some everyday foods bread, cheese, tomatoes, fruit addressing where they come from and the processes that bring them from the field, the cow, the tree to your lunchbox! Who made the bread for your sandwich? What about the cheese inside? Who picked the fruit? And where did the chocolate in your biscuit come from? Just how did all that delicious food get into your lunchbox? This stylish and funny book takes the reader on a tasty journey to find answers to all these questions and more, from farms, orchards and factories and right across the world. With nutrition plate and food facts, this is a fun and informative look at food and food production. Use this form to email a PDF copy Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food this catalogue page. Cancel OK. Contact us: General Enquiries. How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?: The Story of Food by Chris Butterworth A look at some everyday foods — bread, cheese, tomatoes, fruit — addressing where they come from and the processes that bring them from the field, the cow, the tree Who made the bread for your sandwich? What about the cheese inside? Who picked Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food fruit? And where did the chocolate in your biscuit come from? Just how did all that delicious food get into your lunchbox? This stylish and funny book takes the reader on a tasty journey to find answers to all these questions and more, from farms, orchards and factories and right across the world. With nutrition plate and food facts, this is a fun and informative look at food and food production. Chris Butterworth is the author of over seventy books, mostly non-fiction, and has written on subjects as diverse as disasters, hiccups, basketball and snakes. She lives in Penzance, Cornwall. Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food Gaggiotti is a graphic designer, packager and illustrator whose illustrations of food have been used by many food companies in London, including Carluccio's and Pizza Express. This is her first children's book. Lucia lives in London, EC1. Legal Policies - Contact Us. Delicious Food Truck Dishes—And The Amazing Stories Of The Women Behind Them The film was a box-office success. Ila Nimrat Kaur is a young wife seeking her husband's Nakul Vaid attention and looking for ways to put romance back into her marriage, one of which is to cook delicious lunches for him. She sends the Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food through the famous Mumbai " dabbawalas ," a complicated system that picks up and delivers lunches from restaurants or homes to people at work. Due to a mix-up, the lunchbox Ila prepares for her husband gets delivered, instead, to Saajan Fernandes Irrfan Khana widower who is about to retire from his job as an accountant. Ila eventually realizes the mistake and with the advice of her neighbour auntie Bharti Achrekar — voice only living in the apartment above her, writes a letter to Saajan about the mix up and places it in the lunchbox along with her husband's favorite meal the next day. An exchange of the messages sent back and forth with the lunches ignites a friendship between the two, as they share memories and events of their own individual lives. At work, Saajan is tasked with training his replacement, Shaikh Nawazuddin Siddiquian orphan whose incompetence initially annoys Saajan, who is already socially distant since his wife's death. Saajan and Shaikh gradually get to know each other better and strike a close friendship as well. At one point, Saajan saves Shaikh's job by covering for his blatant mistakes on pay orders and he also becomes his best man at his wedding with Mehrunissa Shruti Bapna. At home, Ila finds out that her husband is having an affair and she begins to give up hope on her marriage. In one of the lunchbox letters, she suggests moving to Bhutan where the cost of living is much less than in India. Saajan writes back suggesting that the two move there together. Ila then offers to meet in person at a popular food joint, but at the appointed time Saajan doesn't turn up. Upon receiving an empty lunchbox the next day, Saajan writes back to the dejected Ila and apologizes, saying Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food he did arrive and saw her from a Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food but couldn't approach her. He explains how young and beautiful she looked, while surmising that he is too old for her and advising her to move on. Some time later, Ila's father, battling with lung cancer, dies in her mother's care. After her mother Lilette Dubey confesses how unhappy her marriage was, Ila decides to search for Saajan, but then learns from Shaikh that he Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food already retired and headed to Nasik. She writes a last farewell message to Saajan announcing that she has decided to leave her husband and move to Bhutan with her young daughter. Meanwhile, Saajan changes his mind en route to Nasik, returning to Mumbai and going in search of Ila — who is last seen at home waiting for her daughter to return from school — as he gets help from the same dabbawala who regularly picked up and delivered the eponymous lunchbox. Ritesh Batra, who had made short Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food, The Morning RitualGareeb Nawaz ki Taxi and Cafe RegularCairostarted researching for a documentary on the famous Lunchbox delivery system of Mumbai, dabbawalaknown for their efficiency, however after spending a week with them inhe got to know of many interesting personal stories they would overhear while waiting outside an apartment. This idea gave birth to the idea of the film, and instead of making the documentary he began writing a film script. Batra completed the first draft of the screenplay in Irrfan Khan liked the script of the film and the concept of his character, not speaking much but talking through notes. After seeing Batra's short film and a couple of meetings he agreed to act in the film. Batra wanted to work with Nawazuddin Siddiqui, another principal character of the film, for a long time. For the female lead, auditions were conducted, wherein Nimrat Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food was selected. Kaur had extensive experience at the Mumbai theatre and worked in films like Peddlers. Prior to the filming, the cast rehearsed for six months. It was shot using the Arri Alexa digital film camera. According to Ritesh Batra, scenes on the train involved the use of only one compartment, and even included actual local commuters when needed. Principal photography lasted 29 days, with a majority of the film's scenes done in three weeks. Afterwards, footage taken in a documentary manner were shot. Mumbai's famous dabbawalas were provided actual lunchboxes to deliver, and followed by a four-member film crew, which filmed the process in documentary style. The film was screened on 19 May as a part of the International Critics' Week at Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food Cannes Film Festivalwhere it received a standing ovation and positive reviews. In India, this film was released in more than screens on 20 September Lunchbox received widespread critical acclaim from both critics and audiences alike. The site's consensus is: "Warm, affectionate, and sweet but not cloying, The Lunchbox is a clever crowd-pleaser from first-time director Ritesh Batra". This film illustrates how love transforms the unlikeliest of people. Gupta of The Telegraph gave two thumbs up to The Lunchbox calling it "as much a moving and muted love story as it is an evocative portrayal of loneliness. Raja Sen of Rediff. If you're in the mood to witness genuinely moving cinema, you're in for a treat. The delectable taste of this lunchbox remains in your mouth much after you've left the theatre. Go for it! There are three women in three marriages in this film, of which two are ailing. The third one is over, almost, only the last rites haven't been performed. Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food are two men in the film — one who has lived a full life and is getting ready to quietly slip off the face of the earth; the other is eager to begin… What's both shocking and soothing is what the film shows us — Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food it takes very little for a soul to come back to life. Mostly, just a hint of hope will do. But it does tick all the boxes that might appeal to festival audiences: quaint Asian urbanism Mumbai trains, dabba deliveryIndian home-cooking, romance. It provides local colour, without being demandingly untranslatable. Jones criticized the film's premise as a gimmick and its purported Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food of "irritating comic foil" in reference to Nawazuddin Siddiqui's and Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food Achrekar's characters as Shaikh and Mrs.