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Food Presentation An Artistic Story to Unfold! By Sharmila Chand
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ood presentation is a beautiful story that involves all five senses into the experience of eating. The cooking process, the ingredients, the texture, aroma, flavours – all capture the senses before the food is actually tasted. Haven’t we heard very often – ‘You eat first with your eyes’! ‘The first sight of the dish should be such that the diner’s spontaneous reaction is of Wow’, say chefs. They add, ‘Food presentation is the best way for us to bring our personality into a dish.’ No wonder we see chefs working hard on plating, getting into the minor details of the right texture, colour combinations to create a masterpiece on the plate. Let’s see how the story of presentation unfolds as they
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share the significance and tips about food presentation.
dressing the salad, arranging & plating it makes a big difference.
Significance of Food Presentation
Chef Sombir Choudhary – Culinary Partner, Raahi Neo Kitchen& Bar, Bangalore I like to play around with food presentation e.g. At Raahi we recently modified our Bhalla Papdi Chaat – it is a chaat at the end of the day, but it looks like a sunny side up egg, all we did was topped it with aerated sweet yogurt and added a mango sphere to make it look like an egg yolk and sprinkled it with black pepper.
Chef Shyam Pandey, Executive Chef – URU Brewpark, Bangalore Food presentation is not only important but is actually a necessity. It plays a crucial role in the culinary journey. Dining or eating is a multi sensory experience in itself and when it comes to food presentation it’s a direct play on that. Every plate of food must tell a story & any dish can be treated differently by using the same ingredients. For example a dish like a simple salad – a mere plays on the cutting of the ingredients,
Chef Suvaranjan Banerjee As a culinarian, food presentation has always been primal to me. I believe that
