Well known names in the food world include Hemant Oberoi, along with Ranveer Brar, Vikas Khanna, Zorawar Kalra, and Saransh Goila. Their aim: to provide healthy and nutritious food to these kids.
Celebrity chefs are used to catering for the rich and famous, so it is a strange, wonderful, and novel experience when a group of celebrity chefs will enter the kitchen to cook for over 6,000 underprivileged children. This is incidentally for International Chef's Day on October 20.
Well known names in the food world include Hemant Oberoi, along with Ranveer Brar, Vikas Khanna, Zorawar Kalra, and Saransh Goila. Their aim: to provide healthy and nutritious food to these kids.
Each of these chefs will prepare a special meal, vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian, in their kitchens, and distribute it to local foundations and orphanages in their respective cities.
While the Indian chapter of the global association of chefs — that is spread across 100 countries—has been observing International Chef's Day for a few years, this is for the first time that a social initiative is being taken up to mark the day.
Alan D'Mello who is spearheading the programme in India says, "We decided to do something different on October 20 this year. So we set the ball rolling by tying up with 50 celebrity chefs, urging them to step out of their workplace, take a few hours off, and give something back to society."
People including chefs, hospitality students, hotels, restaurant owners and product vendors associated with the industry, will be participating in this project. This will be an annual affair from this year onwards.
D'Mello adds, "Since it is all about spreading cheer and goodwill among the less fortunate, we are heartened to see that around 15,000 hospitality students from different cities including Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Chennai and Jalandhar have come forward to be part of this endeavour."
Chefs and restaurant owners have been urged to feed at least 100 kids, and the emphasis is on creating innovative and healthy food with local produce. The budget too has been fixed at a maximum of Rs 100 per child.
Chef Farooq Baig of The Zuri White Sands, Goa who is participating in the event, said, "It is a privilege for us to feed unprivileged children on International Chef's Day. However, it would be great if all the hotels come together and feed these children once a week or once a month and extend this practice as a daily feature."
Baig says, "We plan to serve them cuisines which they haven't eaten before. Hence, we have designed a menu containing dishes like pizza, burgers, noodles, chicken lollipops, etc, which will be prepared in a healthy manner. Also, these children will be welcomed and treated as special guests in our hotel."
Goila will also be preparing around 50 kg of butter chicken for 100 kids and will send to the International Chef's Day team in Mumbai to be distributed in orphanages.
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