Easter Sunday Brunch at Crowne Plaza

Easter Sunday found me and my family at Crowne Plaza, Bangalore enjoying a well planned Easter Sunday Brunch. It turned out to be a fantastic day for my eight year old. There were games, some exciting desserts and an egg hunt. 

Here's a photo tour of the exhaustive variety of delicious surprises...

Cosy seating...

Live music...

Indoor golf and feed the clown...

"You should eat more of these veggies"...

Will worry about veggies later... these starters look really good...

Batter fried fish...

Margarita...

Batter fried chicken...

Cheese...

Samosa...

Egg bonda...

Turkey...

The kid also got his caricature done...

Dimsums...

Coq Au Vin - Chicken and onions and mushrooms braised in red wine and seasonings...

Ravas bake with Almond crunch crust...

Roasted Beet and Turnip with parsley...

Quzi is a rice based dish popular in Iraq. It is served with very slow cooked lamb and roasted nuts and raisins...

Goan Ros Omelette...

Loved this show piece made from dried Bottle gourd...

My plate with Smoked Salmon and Tuna... 

Lamb biriyani...

Sangria...

Seared Tenderloin with Grain Mustard sauce...

 Desserts...

Egg Hunt...

You can reach Crowne Plaza on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/crowneplazabengaluru

World Health Day 2015

As part of the World Health Day 2015, WHO Country Office for India organized a regional consultation in collaboration with the Department of Community Medicine, M. S. Ramaiah Medical College making a strong call for promoting food safety, the theme of this year’s World Health Day...

The consultation brought together stakeholders, from farm to plate, to discuss integration of ‘food safety’ into the broader food policy agenda and informing producers and consumers about the vital importance of safe food, and its impact on public health...

Dr Shalini C Nooyi,Prof&HOD, Community Medicine MSRMC

In his address, Mr P. S. Vastrad, IAS, Commissioner (HFW), Government of Karnataka highlighted the importance of preventive measures to ensure good health. He elaborated how fertilisers, use of preservatives to aid transportation of food grains over long distance and chemical treatment make farm produce contaminated and adulterated. He also reiterated the importance of inculcating healthy eating habits...

Mr PS Vastrad, IAS, Commissioner (Health and Family Welfare) Government of Karnataka

Addressing issues related to food safety and food control systems, the consultation saw active deliberations on the need for multi-sectoral collaboration from food production to consumption and cooperation from all sectors for compliance of food standards...

Dr Asish Satapathy, RTL-South-WHO

Dr DV Guruprasad, Chief Executive, Gokula Education Foundation (Medical)

Acknowledging the need to further improve the food safety systems, the forum extensively deliberated on the issues of production, regulations, nutrition, unhealthy food, consumer awareness, animal-human interface of food-borne diseases and strengthening surveillance of these diseases in India.

Mr Nameet, First Agro

The consultation strongly advocated that the governments must partner with civil society, NGOs, private sector and consumers, to ensure that safe food becomes everybody’s business. Perspectives on‘Serving Safe Food’ were presented by a chef Vibhuti Bane from a leading hotel and M.S. Ramaiah Hotel Management Institute, emphasising the importance of safe food...

Chef Vibhuti Bane, G. K. Corporation

Dr N Nayantara Patil, Health Officer, (BBMP)

Lively discussion and great insights were provided by all for the topic...

And here are the FIVE KEYS to safer food and better health...

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Cricket fever

As the best cricket teams slog in the Cricket World Cup 2015, there is a cricket frenzy at home...

Rubber trees of Kerala

Rubber tree is cultivated extensively in some parts of Kerala to extract Latex. It is one of the most economically important trees in Kerala...

Latex is a sticky, milky colloid drawn off by making incisions into the bark and collecting the fluid in vessels in a process called "tapping". The latex then is refined into rubber ready for commercial processing...

In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British planters. The first commercial Hevea plantations in India were established at Thattekadu in Kerala in 1902...

Rohan at 11 months

Eleven months old Rohan is crawling at great speed around the house...

Oh, and he also surprised us by walking a few wobbly steps...

I couldn't help photoshopping a guitar to this Jimi Hendrix pose...

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