By Shruti Pillai
Hostel Kitchen, held on the final day of Milan ’11, was nothing short
of a fantastic food carnival. It was the place to be for cooking
enthusiasts, especially those from the hostels. The event challenged
over 20 teams to prepare a food item within 45 minutes flat, without
using fire! Each team, consisting of two members, was given Rs.100 to
purchase the ingredients that were available from a mock shop set up
on the spot.
The first half hour provided for the competitor’s to buy the required
ingredients saw lots of mayhem as they ran around deciding and
discussing what to purchase that would help them create the perfect
dish and claim the winning place. Once the scene settled, the “chefs”
were busy raising the standards of creativity, preparing amazing
dishes, each looking better than the other!
Mr. Ganesh Moorthy and Mr. Anand Thiliban, Chefs from the Institute of
Hotel management were the judges for the event. They tasted their way
through all the wonderful looking dishes and finally after spending
quite some time in contemplation, announced Saketh from IIIT Hyderabad
and Prithvi from SRM University’s team the winners. The judges decided
on “Hyder Nawaaba’s”, as they called themselves, as the winners for
their presentation, taste and knowledge about cooking. They were
presented with a cash price of Rs.2500 for their splendid victory. “I
loved the competition. And I loved us winning even more!” exclaimed a
satisfied Saketh. “I will definitely not miss out on this event next
year if they conduct it again” he added.
“This was an extremely interesting event for me to judge. So many
teams with no cooking background have shown off amazing skills here.
There are bound to be minor glitches, but that’s always acceptable”,
said Mr. Ganesh Moorthy. “Various creative and innovative ideas which
I did not expect were shown here today. Milan should encourage such
events every year.” added Mr. Anand Thiliban.
So the moral of the story is that one does not need to go to popular
eating joints and spend big bucks to have healthy and appetizing food.
Sometimes you should just try doing it yourself!
Hostel Kitchen, held on the final day of Milan ’11, was nothing short
of a fantastic food carnival. It was the place to be for cooking
enthusiasts, especially those from the hostels. The event challenged
over 20 teams to prepare a food item within 45 minutes flat, without
using fire! Each team, consisting of two members, was given Rs.100 to
purchase the ingredients that were available from a mock shop set up
on the spot.
The first half hour provided for the competitor’s to buy the required
ingredients saw lots of mayhem as they ran around deciding and
discussing what to purchase that would help them create the perfect
dish and claim the winning place. Once the scene settled, the “chefs”
were busy raising the standards of creativity, preparing amazing
dishes, each looking better than the other!
Mr. Ganesh Moorthy and Mr. Anand Thiliban, Chefs from the Institute of
Hotel management were the judges for the event. They tasted their way
through all the wonderful looking dishes and finally after spending
quite some time in contemplation, announced Saketh from IIIT Hyderabad
and Prithvi from SRM University’s team the winners. The judges decided
on “Hyder Nawaaba’s”, as they called themselves, as the winners for
their presentation, taste and knowledge about cooking. They were
presented with a cash price of Rs.2500 for their splendid victory. “I
loved the competition. And I loved us winning even more!” exclaimed a
satisfied Saketh. “I will definitely not miss out on this event next
year if they conduct it again” he added.
“This was an extremely interesting event for me to judge. So many
teams with no cooking background have shown off amazing skills here.
There are bound to be minor glitches, but that’s always acceptable”,
said Mr. Ganesh Moorthy. “Various creative and innovative ideas which
I did not expect were shown here today. Milan should encourage such
events every year.” added Mr. Anand Thiliban.
So the moral of the story is that one does not need to go to popular
eating joints and spend big bucks to have healthy and appetizing food.
Sometimes you should just try doing it yourself!
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