Kitchen that feeds 100,000 daily

"The guys knocked it down before I even got here," Meranti said, after viewing the damage inside the single-family home. "They did a really good job."Meranti said the fire appears to have started in the vicinity of the stove; the kitchen incurred water and fire damage and the rest of the house has significant smoke damage. The health inspector determined all the food in the kitchen could not be salvaged. The side window had to be pulled out and burnt wood and materials was piled outside it.Girard's daughter, Carol Girard Lemaire, said her mother and niece were weathering the incident and members of their large family had arrived at the home to help."She's shaken up but she's OK, the little girl's OK but she was shaken up, too," she said. "Mom's got eight of us, so all eight of us are around here and we'll find a place for her." 

Firefighters were using fans to air out the building and expected to be there throughout the night along with a police presence. North Adams Ambulance Service also responded.Two hundred thousand rotis Indian flat bread, 1.5 tonnes of dal lentil soup and free food served to 100,000 people everyday are what makes the free kitchen run at the Golden Temple in the western Indian city of Amritsar stand apart.By all measures, the kitchen called langar in Punjabi is one of the largest free kitchens to be run anywhere in the world.The concept of langars was initiated centuries ago by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion.Sunday, November 17, is his 545th birth anniversary. 

At the Langar, no one goes hungry - and everybody gets a hot meal regardless of caste, creed and religion.All Sikh Gurudwaras places of worship have langars, but the one at Golden Temple - Sikhs' holiest shrine - has little parallel."Anyone can eat for free here and on an average we serve food to 100,The work that goes into keeping the event running like clockwork against the weather and other external factors,kayak paddles from school buses to grumpy farmers, is mammoth.000 people. On weekends and special occasions double the numbers of people visit the langar. The langar never stops and on an average 7,This is exactly why we recognise the communities sup boards that we go through and try to put as much back as we can.000 kg of wheat flour, 1,200 kg of rice, 1,Measuring the average force over a period of time is a common requirement in the packaging industry,Linear electric actuator while the external trigger function comes in handy for switch activation force testing—two special measurement modes that are available in some gages.300 kg of lentils, 500 kg of ghee clarified butter is used in preparing the meal every day," says Harpreet Singh, manager of this huge kitchen.