IHE19 Curtain Raiser

After the tremendous success of IHE18, India Expo Centre & Mart (IEML) hosted another magnificent curtain raiser to the second edition of India International Hospitality Expo (IHE19) at Hotel Le Meridien, Delhi.

Summer Desserts to Beat the Heat

Summer is the season when your entire concept of desserts takes a new twist. Favourites like Chocolate and Strawberry Cakes, or Mint Oreo Cake or even Indian desserts like Gulab Jamun and Gajar Ka Halwa are turned a blind eye to, and the preferred ones become ice creams or fluids – both sweet and spicy. Ice creams are generally one of the favourite desserts and makers of this delicacy come up with new flavours during summer. Though ice creams can bring us a cool and refreshing feeling in the hot summer, they are not suitable for several people. Some chefs claim that ice creams are not the ideal escape for summer heat as they could affect yours health. Ashok Malkani takes a look at the prevailing culinary scenario during summer to gauge which desserts are proving popular with people during these blistering days.

Gelling With Gelatin

Gelatin – a fairly old ingredient for setting many items and cooking is also spelt as gelatine and originates from the French term, gélatine. It is a transluscent brittle substance, colourless or light yellow. In itself it has no taste or odour and it is created by prolonged boiling of connective tissue of animals such as skin, cartilege, and bones. Apart from its use in food, it is also of use in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and photography industry. Technically also known as E number E441, it is an irreversibly hudrolyzed form of collagen.

Nuts In Baking

Cakes are soft and spongy and often have the various creams and chocolates – well, ordinary cakes that is. When you chop and use candied and/or dried fruits, nuts and spices you come up with extremely different genre of cake.

Trendy Cafe

It is a commonly known fact that burgers, pizzas and sandwiches are popular across several pockets of urban India. The significant increase in disposable incomes in select but sizeable pockets of urban Indian society during the last two decades, the growing number of nuclear families and the spread of busy life which often lead to very little time to cook two full meals a day, and the evolution in urban India’s food & beverage preferences due to the impact of globalisation are only some of the socio-economic factors fostering this trend.

Cafe Business With Potential

Cafes are not the places where you just visit for a cup of coffee and exit. Many renowned cafés have a culture, a legacy associated with them. These days, in post-modern urban India, café is a place where the youngsters gather to socialise or to do leisurely work, or to do their college or business assignments on their computers. With many of the cafes offering free Wi-Fi, you will find many of the guests occupying lonely nooks to concentrate on their assignments, with a cup of warm, aromatic coffee. Coffee, which was mainly a drink confined to south India, has become, with its various different avatars, a favourite of the youths in the Indian metros as well as in tier-I and tier-II cities. International brands like Café Coffee Day, Starbucks, Costa Coffee, and Barista to name a few, have contributed significantly to this coffee café culture. Ashok Malkani discusses about this happening scenario. The growth of café culture and the future of cafes in the context of India’s food service industry are analysed.

The Essential Fruit

Wood apple, which is known as bael in Hindi, is a fruit enriched with health benefits.

Facilitating Hygiene In Food Production Chain

It is extremely important that eateries get their food and beverage products only from reputed and registered suppliers and institute a system of regular inspection to facilitate that the supplied products are of consistently high quality

The Rise And Rise Of QSRs

Due to some favourable socio-economic factors, India’s QSR market is growing impressively. According to an ASSOCHAM’s report dating back to 2015, the quick service restaurant sector in India was growing at a CAGR of 25 percent, and was likely to touch Rs.25,000 crore mark by 2020 from Rs.8500 crore in 2015. Ashok Malkani explores the happening QSR business scenario in India, where several international brands like McDonald’s, KFC, Subway, Domino’s Pizza and others have established themselves and by tailoring their offerings to Indian tastes, they have scripted or are scripting success stories in India’s QSR business.

Blue, Purple, and Healthy

Blueberries are flowering plants, whose height range from 10 centimeters to 4 metres. They can be aptly described as prostate shrubs. These plants or shrubs produce berries, which teem with health benefits. These berries are also known as blueberries.

The Recipe For Successful

Bakery business in India has huge growth potential. Starting a bakery business also requires a modest capital. That is probably one of the reasons behind the galore of home bakers across the Indian bakery industry.But to succeed in bakery business, especially with limited funds, an entrepreneur not only requires personal involvement, hard work and creativity, but proper training is also needed. Ashok Malkani tries to find the ingredients that make for a good baker.

Bakery In Age Of Social Media

If you want to make it big in India’s bakery industry, having a social media marketing strategy is a must

Artisan Bakery

Modern bread due to usage of bleached flour and addition of dough conditioners, emulsifiers and mold inhibitors is being distanced by the consumers who are health conscious. Their preference is now shifting to healthier and wholesome ingredients. The result is the increasing popularity of artisan bread. Loosely artisan bread could be designed as one which is produced by using traditional methods and ingredients. Ashok Malkani takes a look at the increasing popularity and the future of this increasingly popular delicacy

Top Trends In Bakery For 2019 Organic, Healthy & Gluten Free

Savoury croissants, healthy multi-grain bread, artisanal bread, ruby chocolate, and sour flavors – this year has been full of new experiments in the bakery world. We talk to talented Bakery chefs and round up the biggest trends of the year.

Premium Biscuits Gaining Currency

Indias bakery market is estimated to be worth Rs.16500 crore and it is growing impressively at 7.5 percent per annum.

Myriad Functions Of Food Additives

The global market for food additives, which has various applications in bakery and confectionary, beverages, dairy and frozen products, sauce and dressings, among others, may surpass 115 billion USD by 2024

Ragi Is Right For Bakeries

Ragi or finger millet is native to the Ethiopian and Ugandan highlands.

Naturally Sweet

For quite some years, sugar has been blamed for the many health related problems that affect our lives and lifestyles.

Designing Your Cake

Nowadays cake is not only a tasty confectionery item, which is savoured by all age groups.

Bakery Ingredients Market Growth

The Indian bakery industry has been growing at a rapid pace due to the busy lifestyles, changing eating habits and western influence, particularly among the millennial. The rising health consciousness, not only of the millennial but of consumers of all ages, has encouraged manufacturers to focus on healthier products like brown, multi-grain and whole wheat breads. Environmental concerns are also increasing sales of organic bakery products. The rapid growth of the bakery industry and the quick changes that are taking place provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to venture in the bakery ingredients market which is in a fast-growth mode. Ashok Malkani looks at the changing scenario in the bakery industry and the ingredients commonly used by the bakery industry, to help entrepreneurs planning to enter the bakery ingredients’ arena.

India Has One Of The Fastest Growing Chocolate Markets

While the global chocolate confectionery market posts slow growth, new research from global market intelligence agency Mintel reveals that India is defying the odds. Indeed, India now has one of the world’s fastest growing chocolate confectionery markets.

Satiating The Sweet Cravings

Cravity is a newly opened trendy café and French patisserie, located in the posh area of Hauz Khas, New Delhi. The outlet was launched on 9th December 2016 and presently the 22 cover sleek café cum patisserie on the ground floor, according to its proprietor Rachit Goil, is attracting brisk footfalls.

The Chili From Tex-Mex

Recently, Food & Beverage Business Review had an interaction with Ashish Saxena, CEO — Chili's India (South & West). Chili’s India is within the ambit of Chili’s American Grill & Bar, which is a leading American casual dining restaurant chain, with presence across more than 1600 restaurants in 33 countries worldwide including Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Egypt, Kuwait, Russia, UAE, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea amongst several others.Tex-Mex Cuisine, a private limited company headquartered in Chennai and having its corporate office in Mumbai, holds development rights for Chili’s American Grill & Bar in West & South India. The southern & western markets for Chili's in the country are spread across Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The interaction with the corporate honcho provided useful perspective about the evolution of the Chili’s brand in India. The excerpts of the interview follow:

Service Charge Is Voluntary

After the Union Government approved guidelines on service charge, the Food and Consumer Affairs Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan has declared in the recent past that the service charge on hotel and restaurant bills was absolutely voluntary and not mandatory.

Trafs 2017: One Stop Shop For Hotel /Food Service Solutions

Thailand’s biggest international hospitality/food service show is set to bring in to one platform 150 exhibitors and more than 20,000 target buyers from 50+ countries.

Pizza Has Potential

One of the fast food products which have great market potential among the urban Indian consumers is the pizza. Especially in post-modern urban India with its huge number of nuclear families with busy working couples, where room for cooking time is not much, pizza can be a nutritious and filling option, which can be had without much hassle, in fact sometimes even through a telephone call or through a click of the mouse.

Rocking Rolls

A decade back when one talked of rolls, the normal visualisation was of a sweet bread in the shape of a roll. But times have changed. Rolls now comprise of vegetarian or non-vegetarian food wrapped in hand made Indian bread, known as rotis and parathas. The simplicity and convenience of making and consuming wraps and rolls has perhaps contributed towards their popularity in this age, when people have less time at their disposal than they had two decades before. Wraps and rolls have evolved internationally over the years, with delectable fillings such as leafy salads, roasted chicken/meat, and grilled vegetables. In the Indian market these elements have coalesced into delicacies like kathi rolls, Frankies, kebab rolls, etc. Ashok Malkani talks about some of rolls which are enjoying huge popularity in the Indian QSR segment.

Enriched Breads

Bread is one of the oldest man made food products, whose usage by humankind dates much beyond the recorded history. There is indication that humankind used to have bread even 30,000 years ago, in fact much before they became civilised. One can find clear evidence of bread making during the beginning of Neolithic age that is around 10,000 BC.

Super Fruit For Bakeries

Guava is a delicious, highly nutritious and tropical fruit whose cultivation is done across several tropical and subtropical regions, up to 1500 m above mean sea level. However, its growth is rare in temperate climates. The fruit is the product of Psidium guajava tree, belonging to the Myrtle family. Psidium guajava is also the botanical name of the guava fruit.

Pop-Up Culinary Show Packs A Punch

With a view to keep the pleasure of cooking alive, and sharing their secrets to create sumptuous delicacies, the founders of Troublesome Duo — Chef Neha Lakhani and Chef Ashay Dhopatkar — recently organised a popup show in Mumbai.