
India's most celebrated chef and Poet Vikas Khanna shows how India can be united through food
India's most celebrated chef and a good poet - Vikas Khanna, living in New York City, started an initiative in April to create a supply chain to ensure dry ration is procured and distributed to orphanages, old-age homes and leprosy centers as the coronavirus cases increased in India and the government implemented a lockdown to control it. He Says:
"My hope is solidarity. Solidarity is everything. We can beat corona and we should all be united to figure out how to defeat this virus,"
"I'm focused on ensuring how to reach as many more people as possible to help them in these challenging times,"
"I'm not doing any favour. I'm giving back to my country. Apart from the kitchen, a chef has a huge responsibility and this gave an opportunity to me" to fulfill my responsibility.
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Of course, some people sent such hateful mails. I don’t respond to it. So much of hate you experience everyday. There have been times when ration has disappeared too. But jab achcha hota hai, main SRK [Shah Rukh Khan] ka gaana laga ke dance kar leta hoon (When something good works out, I play on SRK’s song and dance to it)...
A young boy in Amritsar learns to cook in his grandmother's kitchen while doing sewa at the legendary kitchens of the Golden Temple. He works as a delivery boy for his father's video cassette library, makes blankets, cooks at weddings and opens a catering business in the back of his house at the age of seventeen.The boy, now a young chef, makes a journey of a lifetime to New York, only to face stiffer chal