Daijiworld Media Network - Beltangady (SP)
Beltangady, Jun 22: 'Annapoorna Kitchen' of Lord Manjunatheshwara temple at Dharmasthala in the district will be one among five large-sized kitchens which will be featured in a television programme to be aired in National Geographic television channel.
The channel has begun to air 'India's Mega Kitchens' programme, which aims at providing introduction and exhaustive insight into kitchens, each of which satiate hunger of thousands of people. The programme will try to introduce to the people how these mega kitchens are maintained, operated, how cooking is done, what technologies are in use, and such other aspects. Host of the programme, Vikas Khanna, is a 'Michelin' starred Indian chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, and popular host of MasterChef India.
This show will be telecast beginning Monday, and will be aired at 10 pm on Mondays and Thursdays. Five biggest kitchens of India, Shirdi, Chennai Taj That's Kitchen, Dharmasthala, main kitchen of Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation at Noida, and Akshaya Patra Foundation's kitchen at Hubli will be featured in this programme.
The kitchens to be shown in the programme will be right from those which prepare lunch for for 1.7 lac school children, to the Taj kitchen which caters to 16 international and three indigenous flight operators, it is gathered.