It’s not any secret that former Master chef Australia judges Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris possess a profound fondness for India. They will have not just hauled across the nation, researching its cuisines, but’ve mentored many chefs out of here. Therefore it’s just natural that they were concerned to the existing Coronavirus position in India.
On April 27, Mehigan published a throw back photo of himself digging into a bowl of choley bhature on his official Insta-gram, captioned, “I have so many good friends in India and right now things seem impossibly bad. I am thinking of you and hoping you and your loved ones are okay. Stay safe and I can only hope that the freedoms and simple pleasures that we may have all taken for granted return soon.”
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Preston, Mehigan and also Calombaris put their minds together and created a marathon on line cooking programme to raise capital for COVID-19 relief efforts from India. It is going to even indicate their very first reunion in 18 weeks. Even the 12 hour ‘cookathon’ (Running from 10.30 am to 10.30 pm IST on Saturday, June 1-9 ) on YouTube will contain cooking demos, banter between the 3 hosts, guest appearances with celebrated Australian chefs and characters in addition to live-crossovers into globally-recognised cooks and chefs from all over the universe.
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Viewers could combine the 3 hosts to ask questions in realtime, and talk with international celebrities of the culinary universe including Heston Blumenthal along with Massimo Bottura, in addition to beloved Aussies including Shannon Bennett, Karen Martini and Manu Fieldel. Naturally, there’ll soon be Master chef alumni like Justine Schofield (Season one), Khanh Ong (Season 10), Sashi Cheliah (Season 10 winner) and Poh Ling Yeow (Seasons one, 1 1 and back again to Acquire ).
A number of India’s most renowned chefs will probably soon be casting overly, including Manu Chandra and Ranveer Brar in addition to celebrity Vidya Balan.
All profits goes to charities in India supporting people suffering from this outbreak. There’ll also be the option to donate extra funds for charities Oxfam India, Seeds, along with Goonj.
Tickets cost AUD$30 (approx $1,600) per, moreover the possibility to donate. Visit EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/myevent?eid=157177270447