Word: chapati
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bombay Club's breads are exceptional. The simple chapati, cooked on a griddle, was obviously just made, warm, tender, and tasting earthily of wheat. Rogini naan, touched with butter but otherwise plain, crisped on the ends. Papadum, sun-dried lentil crisps that had been roasted in the tandoori oven, crackled in the mouth, the sprinkling of black pepper giving a little zing...
...headquarters in New York City and 47 affiliate chapters on six continents, arranges for women who have no collateral to receive commercial loans that typically run from $150 to $600. One of its smaller loans, for $50, went to a woman in India who built an oven to sell chapati, or flatbread. One of the largest endeavors helped raise $1 million to start a dairy cooperative in Thailand. "Our goal is to reach women who have been bypassed by the traditional banking system and bring them into the economic mainstream," says Ela Bhatt of Ahmedabad, India, the current WWB chairman...