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Topic: Chefs

‘The future of dining’: There’s a hot new restaurant run by an AI chef

Aiman doesn’t physically cook; it creates. It can analyze ingredients, generate unconventional flavour combinations and write detailed recipes that human chefs in Woohoo’s kitchen then test.

Papa’s is Mumbai’s most elusive hotspot. Lucky few taste its red ants, rabbit, clam cocktail

Papa’s is one of Mumbai’s most sought-after dining spots, with foie gras laddoos to nihari pie featuring in its 12-course tasting menu. Bookings for the Rs 10,000 meal open just once a month.

How Korean cooks taught chopping to NCR. Nepali chefs are ruling the game

Nepalese and North-Eastern cooks trained as kitchen helpers under Korean ajummas in guest houses. Now, some are leading Korean restaurants as head chefs.

These chefs are done taking orders. They’re turning entrepreneurs

From Regi Mathew’s Kappa Chakka Kandhari to Saransh Goila’s butter chicken chain and Manu Chandra’s multi-brand business, chefs are cashing in on India’s appetite for new flavours.

Gurugram gets School of European Pastry. Rs 1 crore oven, luxe ingredients, top chefs

The Gurugram branch of the School of European Pastry wants to fill the gap in high-end culinary training. ‘We are creating a benchmark for institutes to wake up, smell the coffee.’

Gurugram home chefs turned pecan into the new walnut—in halwa, chaat, thepla, and sushi

The home chefs' platform We The Chefs in collaboration with the American Pecan Council had 26 home chefs presenting pecan recipes.

Meet new gen chefs and the great Indian culinary experiment—amla in salad, ivy gourd in pasta

They are breaking conventional rules, redefining the concept of cooking and dining experiences and bringing a fresh perspective to the table.

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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.