Decades before edible oil became a mass-produced consumer product packaged in plastic bags, an entire village in Tamil Nadu depended on oil presses for a living. Some 30 years ago, almost every household at Kadampadi near Coimbatore had an oil press. Today, there’s only one man in the village operating an oil press. Bordering a cornfield, it holds the last of the oil presses of Kadampadi. “We ground sesame seeds, groundnuts, neem seeds, coconut, and amanakku (for castor oil),” he remembers.

Source: The Hindu September 27, 2018 11:26 UTC