Lentil Curry and Naan

20251031 #breakfastdiary 1547, 10°C/mostly cloudy About 60% of people around the world use some kind of tool — chopsticks, a spoon, a fork, a knife — when they eat. Meanwhile, the roughly 40% of the world's population with a hand-eating culture, like India and parts of South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia, use their hands as the tool instead. More than you'd think. Anyway, if you trace back the origin of whatever tool people use to eat, it's probably driven more by utility and efficiency than by taste or preference. Cutting food into manageable pieces, sometimes stabbing it, sometimes picking it up — the real goal, one way or another, was simply how efficiently it could be carried to the mouth. (Breakfast-and-me, a cultural history of eating utensils, from Breakfast Every Day) Curry really tastes best eaten by hand. A 631kcal lentil curry flavored with onion and tomato, and naan.