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Global Fast Food Launches its First QSR in Bengaluru
Charlie Chaplin has launched its F&B vertical in India through its exclusive licensing partner UnitedVegan Pvt. Ltd. The first flagship Quick Service Restaurant (QSR), ‘Charlie Chaplin LaVegano’, was unveiled in Bengaluru at New Bel Road.
1 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Bakery Review
Britannia Good Day Launches New Identity
Britannia Good Day, urban India’s largest biscuit brand revealed its new identity today.
1 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Bakery Review
Andrea's Bistro Opens in Delhi
Andrea Pauro, the restauranteur behind Amici, Andrea’s Eatery, Andrea’s Bar & Brasserie opens a global themed Andrea’s Bistro in Delhi’s Vasant Kunt at DLF Promenade Mall.
1 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Bakery Review
A Passionate Leader & Baker!
Chef Mohammad Hai, Pastry Chef, JW Marriott Mussoorie Walnut Grove & Spa
3 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Bakery Review
Emulsifiers in Baked Goods
The use of food additives is necessary to maintain the quality and freshness of the food pro product. Food additives perform important functions in baked goods such as starch complexing, protein strengthening and aeration and may also offer some degree of emulsification.
6 min |
October - November 2021
Bakery Review
Desserts Sweets that won't Desert you
Dessert is the favourite part of a meal not only of children but of everyone present at the dinner table. No wonder 14th October is celebrated every year as National Dessert Day. Sweets are an inevitable part of almost all festivals and festivities in India. Any social event must end with a dessert – if not an array of them! In India sweets are a gesture of goodwill. Desserts thus form an essential part of the meal. Ashok Malkani looks at the various aspects of this final course of a meal including its benefits and the popularity of different desserts in countries around the world.
10 min |
October - November 2021
Bakery Review
Lavazza Globally Launches La Reserva De ¡Tierra! India
Lavazza, the Italian brand that is among the world’s leading coffee roasters, has announced the launch of La Reserva de ¡Tierra! India, a unique premium blend of refined coffees fully sourced from Karnataka and crafted in India, for professional use in cafes, fine-dine restaurants and star hotels.
2 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
Maintaining Bakery Business in Pandemic
Bakery industry is the largest segment of the food processing sector in India. There are over 2,000 bakeries in the organized and semi organized subdivision of the industry producing about 1.3 million tones of the bakery products and another 1,000,000 small scale bakeries producing 1.7 million tones. COVID 19 affected the working of this industry, also, adversely. Though bakery products were not as badly affected as food items in the F&B sector, the industry has to adopt measures to ensure that its production and distribution attain high standards of hygiene in order to retain its status in the food processing industry. Ashok Malkani takes a look at how the industry can maintain hygiene in the production line-up (including personal hygiene), distribution and retail segments.
8 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
MAKING MERRY WITH MILK
Human being is the only mammal who drinks the milk of another mammal and this drink is most pleasurable at a cold temperature when the mercury rises.
6 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
A Perfectionist with Eye on Technique and Precision!
Surendra Negi, Master Patissier, Taj Palace New Delhi
5 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
Living it up at the Café!
Cafes are no longer places where one goes to have a cup of coffee. It has become a meeting place for friends and colleagues. With the introduction of Wi-Fi, in most of these places, cafes have also developed into substitute places of work. The changing concept of café has been as revolutionary as the changing perception of coffee. Initially, about two decades ago, coffee was available only as South Indian filtered coffee. This pick-me-up was, later, available as instant coffee and then as Espresso. Now this drink has acquired various formats like Cappuccino, Latte, Frappe, et al. Ashok Malkani, on the occasion of International Coffee Day, on 1st October, look at the changing café scenario, the effect of the pandemic on these outlets and their future. He also examines how the tipple called coffee is now available in various cocktail forms – hot or cold.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
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New Technology Designed to Detect Destructive Cocoa Virus
Swiss agrifood testing company SwissDeCode, in collaboration with Mars Wrigley, has created an on-site test that is designed to detect Cocoa Swollen Shoot Disease (CSSD) in asymptomatic trees in less than 60 minutes.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
Passionate & Versatile!
Aavika Chhawchharia, Co-Founder of ‘Honey&Dough’ Coffeehouse & Bakery
3 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
Soya Means Health
With the excitement about healthy foods reaching its crescendo, it has become almost difficult to enjoy a sinful dessert or a creamy pastry without gulping a few slices of guilt along with them.
5 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
The Most Popular Autumn Drink
Autumn has arrived and with the season come seasonal favourites, autumnal drinks! With the classic, hot chocolate, and the modern favourite, pumpkin spice latte, vying for the top spot, which autumnal beverage is the most popular worldwide?
2 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
When Breads Speak German
The importance of bread in every society is unique in itself. Every country has many variations on the offer.
5 min |
August - September 2021
Bakery Review
Baskin Robbins & Hershey's Team Up
Baskin Robbins India has teamed up with Hershey’s India to co-create a range of delicious ice creams and desserts.
1 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
Just Sandwiched
Sandwich is considered a humble food but it need not be. Sometime back, a sandwich in England was touted as the most expensive sandwich at £85. And it was not even at a fancy restaurant in a five-star hotel but at the Selfridges Department Store in London.
5 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
UNIBIC Foods Appoints CEO
UNIBIC Foods, one of India’s fastest growing FMCG companies announced the appointment of Naveen Pandey as its Chief Executive Officer. Naveen will be responsible for leading the strategic direction and growth journey of the Company.
1 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
FMCG Companies are Strengthening Rural Distribution Network to Combat the Low Consumer Sentiments
Like most sectors and indeed the larger economy, the FMCG companies to have not remained insulated from the effects of the pandemic, an outbreak which only seems to have resurfaced with greater ferocity and vehemence in recent days in the form of the so-called second wave.
4 min |
June - July 2021
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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.
5 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
Minimising Trans Fat Usage
The tussle between appearance and substance is an old one. And in the modern quick-fix mode of operations, this age-old debate has only become more intense.
5 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
Packed to Perfection
The pandemic has made the people more aware of consuming healthy food products, which are untouched by hand. Health is high up on the priority list and there is thus a leaning towards baked food, which is considered to be more nutrient. The bakery industry is thus seeing an increasing demand for its products. However, since the consumers are also insisting on products untouched by hand, packaging is assuming an increasing role in bakery products. Bread, biscuits and other products which are mechanically packaged are being preferred. There is thus an increasing demand for packaging material in the industry and the demand for this is expected to continue. Ashok Malkani examines the market for packaging bakery products and also other types of material that are needed by the industry.
5 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
You are never late with Choco-Late
The sweet and soothing chocolate is everyone’s favourite not only on Valentine’s Day but throughout the year. Chocolate, which is used in all types of desserts like cakes, candies, puddings et al., is also believed to be good for health. The cocoa beans in the chocolate contain dopamine, phenylethylamine, caffeine, and anandamide, which is considered to be a happy neurotransmitter in the brain. Anandamide, called the bliss molecule, makes you feel happy and blessed. No matter this much loved sweet has become popular globally and the World Chocolate Day is celebrated on 7th July every year. Ashok Malkani examines various aspects of the beloved sweet, chocolate: Its usage in desserts, the different types of chocolates, its health benefits, etc.
9 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
Work Smart, Work Hard!
Hamza Patel, Managing Director, AP Group
3 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
“Whatever you do, do it with determination and passion”
Chef Manikandan Sivamoorthy, Pastry Chef, JW Marriott Mussoorie
3 min |
June - July 2021
Bakery Review
From Farm To Fork ... Opportunities In Dairy Industry
Dairy industry provides ample opportunities for new entrepreneurs to explore, as it makes its way from the farm to the dining table. Today milk comes in various forms. Besides the raw milk, one has low fat milk, fat free milk, flavoured milk, organic milk, lactose milk et al. Besides milk, an entrepreneur also has the option of entering any of the value added dairy products like cheese, butter, ghee, etc. All these dairy products also need packaging, which is another segment that entrepreneurs could explore, besides the machinery needed by the industry. Ashok Malkani examines all segments of the industry available for the enterprising entrepreneurs who desire to enter this industry.
9 min |
December - January 2021
Bakery Review
India's Burger Market Has Promise
The global popularity of burger is complemented by its over hundred-year-old legacy. However, all said and done, the history of burger is not very old as compared to that of many other famous food items of the world.
5 min |
December - January 2021
Bakery Review
Life is Yummy … with Desserts
Be it chocolates or cakes, sweets are always a favourite with people of all ages. Sweets have been a weakness with people from primordial days. A fondness for sweets is what endears desserts to the populace. If one looks at it scientifically, one finds that it was probably a fondness for sweets that gave people, in history, the energy and, possibly, saved their lives. Being able to taste sweetness might have helped our ancestors to identify energy rich food, which played a critical part in their survival. This fondness for sweets is what makes desserts an obsession with people. Ashok Malkani examines the love for desserts and analyses the modern concept of them being harmful to your health. He also looks at the trends during the New Year.
10+ min |
December - January 2021
Bakery Review
Milk Magic Enters Indian Consumer Market
Jayshri Gayatri Food Products (JGFP), one of the leading dairy product manufacturers in the Central India, has now forayed into the Indian domestic consumer market with its dairy products brand ‘Milk Magic’. The company has a strong foothold in the B2B segment of the domestic as well as the export markets over the years.
2 min |