Chef’s Corner
Chef Vivek Chauhan awarded Pastry Chef of the Year at IHE 2021
Bakery Biz, September-October, 2021 Chef Vivek’s goal remains to continue the onward graph of the Indian Culinary scenario and Pastry arts field in India and rise to greater heights on the world map and ensure that the present and future of India continue to define and redefine the world of Chocolates and Desserts. Chef Vivek […]
Unearthing the Hidden Power of Food Scraps
Bakery Biz, September-October, 2021 A book by Chef Davinder Kumar commemorating his five decades of culinary excellence SECOND MEALS is a book written by Chef Davinder Kumar, Vice President, F&B, Le Meridien, Delhi, and President, Indian Culinary Forum. Ask him what led him to author this book. “In my five decades of culinary experience, I […]
That danger called FAT
BakeryBiz, May-June, 2021 During these lethargic times, one needs to wake up to the amount of food and the fat that they intake. Chef Kunal Arolkar throws light on the danger called FAT. I wish everything was as easy as getting fat!”, popular funny quotes aside, the world we currently live in, has more opportunities […]
OBITUARY – Dr. Chef Soundararajan P
BakeryBiz, May-Jun, 2021 A stalwart of the Indian culinary world, Dr. Chef Soundararajan Palaniappan’s sudden demise left the Indian hospitality fraternity in a state of shock and grief. Dr. Chef Soundararajan will be fondly remembered not just as a professional chef but also a mentor to India’s leading chefs in the culinary world. Dr. Chef […]
ClubRATIONAL goes online!
The new ClubRATIONAL launched in February from Rational India now offers an interactive platform for all professional chefs and is full of new suggestions, useful functions and is particularly userfriendly and intuitive. “We have included scores of new recipes, which Club members can review, add to or share with colleagues on Facebook and Twitter,” explains […]
Young chefs form own body … Veterans distance themselves
New generation pastry chefs are splitting away from the oldies and forming themselves as a disparate cohort. Young pastry chefs set up their own professional body recently even as seasoned chefs professed to distance themselves from the new-found camaraderie. An exclusive report by Manoj John Pastry chefs are a dispersed lot. Their presence is felt […]
The out-of-the-box chef
Shantanu Gupte’s can be termed the voice of dissent in the world of food. When everyone in the food service is talking about mechanisation and pre-mixes, Gupte loves to confabulate about slow cooking where it takes a good six hours to prepare mouth-watering biryani. He has the locus standi to sit on judgement since he […]
No outside food allowed. Well, not anymore!
Outsourcing is becoming the backbone for supply of petit fours, entremets and desserts to the hospitality industry. If space and resource constraints persist, hotels and restaurants may go all out to outsource these products from third parties in near future. AB’s Test Kitchen, founded by the Master Chef Abhiru Biswas, is supplying ready-to-eat desserts and […]
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