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Hi all,
I attended the 3 day international cuisine conference on Traditional Asian
Diet at the Hotel Fidalgo last week(goanet was on line media partner,) ,and
it was a very stimulating,interesting experience. However the response was
rather poor.
There were many celebrities who presented papers on different topics -
celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor spoke abt his ambition to make indian cuisine
famous all over the world ,Tarla Dalal spoke on healthy trends in vegetarian
cuisine ,NDTV's Neeru Gupta spoke about indian fast food,junk foods etc.
Our very own Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues presented an
excellent paper on the influence of Portuguese cuisine on goan cuisine.
There were laments that the number of restaurants serving authentic goan
food was declining.Every restaurant is now multi cuisine.
It was also revealed that our prestigious goan catering college at Porvorim
,has very few goan students .I talked to the Principal who told me the goan
students do not want to appear for the all India entrance exam and qualify.
There was a presentation on indian wines,and also feni.
It was interesting because every session was interactive ,and there was
dialogue between the speakers and the participants.
I do hope the Goa tourism dept takes a keen interest in promoting goan food
(both catholic goan cuisne and hindu saraswat cuisine)
Regards,
Melinda
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ECAP 2007 - Computer Society of India - Goa Chapter inaugurates its 15th
Exhibition of Computers & Allied Products at Hotel Mandovi, Panaji
at 9:30am on Sep 8, 2007 at the hands of Mr. M. N. Rao - Advisor & Director
(IT) Department of Computer Science - Government of Goa.
All are cordially Invited
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