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    How Indian pressure cookers could help Europe combat rising food prices & fuel costs

    Pressure cookers never entirely shook off this scary reputation in the West, despite the invention of safety valves to prevent explosions.

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    French physicist Denis Papin demonstrated a pressure cooker in 1681 to Britain’s Royal Society, which promptly elected him a member.

    Years ago, I took a friend from Zimbabwe shopping in Mumbai. Robert Mugabe’s reign had resulted in severe shortages of fuel, so he wanted to buy a pressure cooker since it could offer significant savings. “I’ve heard India makes good ones,” he said.Pressure cookers might experience a similar demand from Europe now, as countries face rising food prices and a winter made colder deprived of cheap Russian gas. The John Lewis retail chain recently
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