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-KH News Desk Chef Tejasvi Chandela leaned towards baking. During her graduation in London, she spent most of her time making food for her friends. “After university everyone else was applying for masters, I on the other hand was applying to pastry schools,” she remembers by adding that she has learnt pastry techniques from schools like Leith school of food & Wine, Le Cordon Bleu Paris. She also did a masters in chocolate making and opened her own patisserie Dzurt in Jaipur when she was just 21. In her baking journal, she says that India has many patisserie scenes in…
-KH News Desk (cbedit@imaws.org) Lucifer’s Gold, a blend of Scottish Whiskey and Kentucky Bourbon that took UK by storm, is now launching in India. The blended whiskey is being brought to India by Monika Alcobev, one of the leading alcohol distributors in India. Lucifer’s Gold brings out the refined taste of each liquor and merges them to make something enthralling. The unique blend of two distinct beverages produces a distinctive texture and taste. It has all the fruitiness and spice that one expects from Scotch, balanced with the vanilla and charred oak notes from bourbon, to deliver a beautiful balance…
Mediated by Turkey, a member of NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and aneighbour to both Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea, and the U.N, Kyiv and Moscow are due to sign deals that would free up Ukrainian Black Sea ports and reopen grain shipments to world markets and for Russia to export grain and fertilizers. Ukrainian and Russian military representatives have reached an agreement on a U.N.-led plan, which would let Ukraine to export 22 million tons of desperately needed grain and other agricultural products that have been stuck in the Black Sea ports since Moscow’s invasion.According to…
Uttam Dey hasmastered his management and culinary skills working with some of the best kitchen teams across the country by working with food capitals of India,Kolkata, and Delhi to the garden city. He known for his exceptional ability to attend to every customer feedback and implement ways to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction. He feels the best cuisines are from India and has a special interest in recreating the long lost authentic regional recipes and bringing them back in the culinary scene of India. “Uttam comes with a vast experience of working in different regions across the country.…
The ‘I2U2’, which is a grouping of India, Israel, United Arab Emirates and United States has come up with measures to battle the food security crises. Innovative methods for the long term and more diverse food production and delivery systems are being worked on. For the same, The United Arab Emirates will be investing 2 billion USD to develop a series of institutional food parks across India. The decision was announced after the leaders of the grouping – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan -…
The Senegalese Minister of Economy,Amadou Hott has recently urged the global food industry not to eliminate the trade of Russian and Ukrainian food products as the food crisis has increased drastically in somevulnerable countries, at the G-20 (an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union (EU)meeting of financial leaders in Bali that happened last week. Due to the war, countries like US and parts of European Union had allowed the trades of Russian goods in the economy. But then again, food sectors have taken precautionary measures to avoid these trades for self-protection. The buying of fertilizers and food…
-KH News Desk On July 19, Saudi-based Tourism Development Fund (TDF) signed a three-party agreement with Ennismore, one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing lifestyle hospitality companies, and Al Rajhi Capital, a leading asset manager in the kingdom, to establish a hospitality investment fund with a capital of $400 millionthat will advance lifestyle hotels. The move is aimed at helping enhance promising sectors of tourism. This partnership deal adds the initial, mission in October last year when TDF and Ennismore signed the agreement to launch an investment fund focused on developing lifestyle hotels in the kingdom at the 5th edition…
In Las Vegas, it is a bright time as the women in the hotel or restaurant industry are finally making a breakthrough with increasing their presence in the field, compared to their male colleagues. Chef Gina Marinelli is one of these brave women who recently nominated for a James Beard Award, which is one of the highest honours a chef can receive. In her speech she mentioned about the crises of not having a role of a female executive chef as non- existent. Although today more roles for women have come up recognised, it’s still rare.In a recent estimate, it…
On 18th July, Hyderabad, the Bonalu Festival took off with flying colours and joy. The festival is majorly celebrated in Hyderabad and Secunderabad as its tradition. Bonalu festival is one of the most popular festivals around, celebratingthe Hindu goddess of time and death, Mahakali. More importantly, it is a festival about the feast, with food plays performed as an honour to the goddess in full grace.Admire and adore this sprightly Bonalu Festival, Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre hosted a Special Brunch on 17th and 24th July 2022. Marigold décor and lively traditional attire for staff as well as a special potharaju…
India’s Minister for Trade and commerce Piyush Goyal had urged all the states to increase sowing of rice, after estimate of sowing rice came back 16% lower than normal level nationally this time.In a conference addressing food ministers of several states, he raised the importance of increasing the sowing of rice compared to previous year’s harvest While re-assuring that there is sufficient stock of rice with the government, the issue comes in with inadequate stocks for international export. Strategy proposed was to increase the produce, so that farmers avail good price in the global market, therefore increasing exports. Plan to…
