16th October 2023
World Food Day aims to put the spotlight on the global challenge of hunger and malnutrition, and promote action for the future of food, people and the planet.
To celebrate this day, IFEA collaborated with SNS Cooking Classes, Prow Services and Hyatt Regency for a cooking event.
The event began with a Zero-Waste Cooking Competition where contestants, mainly home chefs, were required to make a dip to go with Crictos Chips by Gopal, a snack brand. Crictos chips of six flavours were provided to the home chef for matching. The dish was based on the use of those parts of a fruit or vegetable that is usually discarded like stalks, stems, roots, leaves, peels, etc.
Chef Suryanarayana VV Sunkara judged the competition and selected the following winners:
Paulomi Patel
Bhawna Shah
Aparna Patel
A cooking workshop was conducted by the Hyatt Regency team of Sarvatt, Tinello and China House restaurants, covering Satvik recipes and sustainable cooking recipes.
On the occasion, Culinary Education and Enterprise Development Association (CEED) felicitated a few volunteers who are working for the hunger challenge.
Manavta Kapur, Dhananjay Jain, Manoj Jain, Darshan Jain, Alpesh Sankheshara and Milesh Doshi received the felicitation as volunteers who provide Sunday meals under the Bharatiye Jain Milan group’s Ahmedabad branch.
Nishi Kant Handa and other members of the Robin Hood Army spoke about the Robin Hood Army (RHA), a volunteer based organization that works to get surplus food from Restaurants, Parties etc. to the less fortunate.
Neeraj Hasija talked about how they are providing surplus food products from their Healthy Browns brand to cattle shelters.
The guests of honour, including Narendra Sinh Purohit of Aahar Management Association, Biseswar Debabrata Mukherjee and Chef Nandi from HRPL, Mona Bhatt and Shanker Damodaran from Global Chambers, among others, gave the prizes and certificates.
