"The purpose of the club is to understand and appreciate food better and to create awareness," he said, adding that The Imperial Culinary Club (ICC) was started in 2009 and is now 32 sessions old.
Culinary clubs are a niche market, said Deepak Bhatia, executive chef at Gurgaon's The Westin, adding when the Westin Culinary Academy was started this year, it was purely to elevate the status of their speciality chefs from merely serving food to sharing their knowledge and demonstrating authentic cooking styles.
