Food :
Generally the common man has two regular meals everyday, one in the forenoon and the other in the evening. Ghee, butter and milk obtained from cows, buffaloes and camels are commonly used. In the hot weather, Marwat often eat breads or cakes of wheat and gram. In the cold weather cakes of maize flour is their staple food. Besides pure Ghee, Lasi is also used in villages, as well as towns. Vegetables are procurable in irrigated tracts. Young gram leaves are largely consumed in the spring and made as excellent pot-herb (saag).
The cooking utensils are always few and simple. Most households possess, besides earthenware vessels, an iron girdle or Tawa (a sandstone girdle is still in use) , silver cooking pot (Degchi) and shallow drinking bowel (Katora) besides some modern utensils.The modern means of communication has brought remarkable changes in the life style of the people and the centuries old traditions are gradually abondoned.
