Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Construction of Culinary Arts and Museum

Celebrity Chef Vikas Khanna arrives at WGSHA, Manipal Academy of Higher Education for the Groundbreaking Ceremony – Construction of Culinary Arts & Culinary Museum

Michelin starred International Celebrity Chef Vikas Khanna and Mr Rajesh Bharadwaj, CEO & Founder of Junoon Restaurant, New York and Dubai, would be in Manipal on Thursday, February 7, 2016, for the Groundbreaking Ceremony – Construction of Culinary Arts & Culinary Museum, the museum specially being instituted by him for his Alma Matar.

Chef Vikas Khanna was extremely determined to create a museum of Indian Culinary Arts, which would display traditional household kitchen equipment and utensils. With patronage and support from Dr Ramdas M. Pai, Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, the Groundbreaking ceremony would pave the way for his dream to come true.

‘We are very glad that celebrity Chef Vikas Khanna has thought of making this museum at WGSHA – Manipal Academy of Higher Education’, Prof. Parvadhavardhini Gopalakrishnan, Principal, WGSHA, said. She added, ‘We are very proud of him and feel very happy that in spite of him being a globetrotter and a celebrity chef much in demand, he still manages to keep in touch with us and has gone to a great extent to collect hundreds of traditional kitchen utensils and equipment from across the world, which would go a long way towards understanding of the forgotten utility of these utensils and equipment by the new generation of Chefs who do not use these anymore’.

Vice Principal Chef K. Thirugnanasambantham, who is coordinating in setting up this museum said, ‘I’m very excited to find so many traditional and very artistic kitchen equipment and utensils together, thanks to this endeavour by Chef Vikas Khanna.’

The Groundbreaking Ceremony will formally start the process of establishing the new building of Culinary Arts along with this Culinary Museum.