India’s traditional recipes will be archived and documented. Union Tourism Secretary Parvez Dewan on Friday said that many cuisines have disappeared and “to prevent this, we thought of archiving the recipes from different parts of India.”
In this regard, a culinary survey of India has already been launched to identify and document recipes. Besides, a research centre is being set up where molecular gastronomy will be discussed and culinary training centres will be established.Dewan was elaborating on the slew of steps taken by the Ministry of Tourism during the new Government’s first 100 days in office.
On September 2, the foundation stone for setting up the first Indian culinary institute was laid, Dewan said, “We have made sure that these recipes are told in a different way and additional information related to them is given to the people, like what utensils to use to cook them in or which mode of fire should be used to cook it.”
Dewan is hopeful that the survey should be completed in five years. On the culinary training schools proposed to be set up in various regions of India, he said that these institutes won’t be following the “traditional mode of studying, but would be more practical-based”.
“So far we have chosen Noida in Uttar Pradesh, Panchkula in Haryana, Salt lake in Kolkata to open these institutes. In the western India, we are still in talks,” he said.According to Dewan, these schools will impart B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees and the aim is to make these institutes into world-class set-ups.