Baking in the Sun

Solar cooking among energy alternatives for developing nations.

Imagine coming home from a hard day’s work to find your dinner perfectly prepared.

Thank heavens, right?

Close.

You can thank the sun and some new technology that is actually neither new nor technological.

Solar cooking — that is, cooking with the sun — has been in existence since the earliest tribes, who are thought to have been adept at harnessing the power of the sun to warm their food more than 2,000 years ago.