--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 6/27/05 9:44:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I just recalled that Brahmins in India do not eat food prepared by > members of other castes if possible, and since the pundits are > Brahmins, they'll want Brahmin cooks. But they are going to have a > battle with the State Dept over this issue, I'll bet (since the cooks > are at least as poor as the pundits and don't qualify for U.S. visas, > and the State Dept clerks in India probably are not concerned about > caste issues and would just say that MUM should hire people who can > read recipes to prepare Indian food -- the pundit kitchen is not a > gourmet restaurant that requires superstars of Indian cooking), and > this issue of visas for cooks certainly could not have been news all > this two years that they have been planning this (non-) event. > >
> > They could get Brahmin cooks in without any difficulty. Indian restaurants > bring in Brahmin cooks all the time here. ************* Fancy Indian restaurants bring in expert gourmet cooks from India, just like other ethnic gourmet restaurants bring in name cooks who are specialists in a particular cuisine -- for instance, sushi chefs from Japan are brought in to work in pricey restaurants in the USA. However, the cooks who are working for the pundits now are not making the money they would be making if they were working in high-end restaurants in India, and so they are not eligible for visas (and that is exactly what Bob Wynne is saying, that the cooks that the pundits need can't get into the country). If the pundits wanted to hire a chef from the Delhi Hilton because of his expertise in Hindu cuisine, they could do it, but they would have to pay a competitive salary (and top chefs can make big bucks), and they would also have to go through the process of first trying to hire Indian chefs already here in the United States before they could hire somebody from India -- that's the way immigration works. There are Indians working in the restaurants in Fairfield, but they did not get here because they were recruited by the scenario I just desribed, but because they are relatives of people who have legal permission to live in the USA -- relatives have priority in getting entry into the U.S. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
