New Delhi: The Welcome Group Graduate School of Hotel Management (WGSHA) of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, has entered the Limca Book of Records for establishing ‘India’s First Living Culinary Arts Museum’ at WGSHA.
Limca Book of Records (LBR) is a catalogue of achievements made by Indians, at home and abroad in diverse fields of human endeavour. LBR is a celebration of exemplary exploits and recognizes accomplishments such as firsts, inventions, discoveries, honours, awards and the truly extraordinary.
Principal of WGSHA, chef Thirugnanasambantham, while thanking MAHE and ITC Leadership for extending all support towards instituting this museum in Manipal and WGSHA said, “The process for WGSHA’s culinary museum to make an entry into the popular Limca Book of Records started almost six months back and after validation by LBR recently, has been listed in the book of records. We are glad that we could be the first of its kind in such endeavour and we also hope to be in Guinness World Records soon.”
‘This Museum’, Chef Thiru added, “Has placed WGSHA in global culinary map and we are proud to have joined all such efforts to preserve the history of cuisines and cultures across the world,” reports indiatoday.in.
Setting up the Museum was chef Vikas Khanna’s idea
Celebrity chef Vikas Khanna is the founder and curator of India’s first living culinary arts museum at WGSHA. He also happens to be an alumnus of WGSHA. It was his idea which led to the establishment of this culinary museum.
As the principal of WGSHA noted, since chef Vikas Khanna is a ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ of WGSHA, what better place could he have selected for his culinary arts museum than in his own Alma Mater?
He also donated thousands of kitchen tools and equipment worth millions of dollars to the culinary arts museum for preserving history of India’s rich tradition of culinary arts and to educate the future generations, the principal stated.
The culinary arts academic block housing the museum was opened in April, 2018, spread approximately over 25,000 sq. ft., and is shaped in the form of a giant pot very similar to the ones found in Harappa. There are historical as well as regular household items such as plates made by the Portuguese in India, a 100-year-old ladle used to dole out food at temples and bowls dating to the Harappan era, an old seed sprinkler, and an ancient Kashmiri tea brewer known as ‘samovar’.
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