Chef-turned-dancer Sanjeev Kapoor of Khana Khazana fame announced a unique recipe contest last week for his Marathi cookery show, Rasoi Khajina.
Chef-turned-dancer Sanjeev Kapoor of Khana Khazana fame announced a unique recipe contest last week for his Marathi cookery show, Rasoi Khajina.
Kapoor plans to promote Maharashtrian cuisine, which has become a rarity in Mumbai, capital of Maharashtra.
He mentioned how people feel that international cuisines are better than our own. “Maharashtrian cuisine is not very popular in Mumbai, but it will pick up,” he said. “It will take some time. Right now it is the syndrome of ghar ki murgi daal barabar.”
The contest, which starts in the New Year, will invite Maharashtrian recipes every week on Rasoi Khajina. After going through the first 50, a standardised recipe will be created with the most common ingredients. The standardised recipe will then be shared with viewers.
“All those who send recipes will have something in common with the final standardised recipe,” said Kapoor. “But the recipe that is closest to the standardised recipe in terms of ingredients will win.”
There was one catch in the event, however. Though it started off with batata vada to promote Maharastrian cuisine, it ended with a Punjabi buffet.
Asked how he planned to promote Maharashtrian cuisine this way, Kapoor said, “The philosophy of food is the same all over the country; something that is dal-chawal in one part of the country is varan-bhaat here in Maharashtra!”
—Ameya Bhise, Lower Parel
The unrelenting tippler
I was returning from a party late the other day when I had to stop at a busy junction in Andheri.
A police squad was stopping the cars and giving them the once-over.
When a car stopped beside mine, the policeman asked the driver to come out. I could see the driver was inebriated.
Asked where he had come from, he said he was driving back from a pub. The policeman noticed something in the car and asked what it was. The man chose not to reply.
The policeman then took out what seemed like a liquor bottle.
“You are driving with a bottle of liquor?” the policeman said angrily. “If you drink this, you will not only drive yourself to hell but also put others’ lives in danger. I am taking this bottle. You can go now. Drive carefully. The next time you drive when drunk I shall book you for drunken driving.”
The man, who had been listening to him quietly, suddenly snatched the bottle from the policeman and gulped its contents in one go. Everyone was stunned. The policeman booked him immediately for drunken driving.
—Golden Reejsinghani, Versova
Ingenious ticketing
One mobile service provider has an offer every Tuesday, where, at designated cinema halls, on purchase of a movie ticket through SMS, the buyer gets one free.
Last Tuesday, I had gone to see a movie at one such cinema hall. While waiting for my relative to arrive, I was idling near the ticket counter when a man approached me asking if I needed a ticket.
He explained the free ticket scheme to me, and said he could get me a ticket for the movie.
But the twist in the tale came when the man told me I was supposed to pay for the ticket, as he intended to see the movie on the free ticket. How ingenious, I thought as I declined his offer.
—Govind Joshi, Girgaum
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