Preparing the meal with a smokeless wood-stove
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- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
- Location
- Ghasa, Nepal
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- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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A woman wearing a saari stands behind a raised earthen wood stove. It is a smokeless stove, introduced as an improvement on the traditional earthen stove which generates a lot of smoke inside the kitchen and the house.
Kitchen work is usually carried out by women in the mountain areas of Nepal. The tourism industry has increased economic opportunities for those households — such as this one in Ghasa — able to set up restaurants and lodges along the trekking routes.
