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Perfecting Skills Program for Fromageries Bel

By Le Cordon Bleu Australia Mon, May 21, 2012 2:33PM UTC View Comments

Le Cordon Bleu News, 05/15/2012

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Perfecting Skills Program for Fromageries Bel This April, Le Cordon Bleu Paris had the honor of welcoming the three winners of the first ever pastry competition organized by Bel Group* in Korea. The competition, sponsored by the Kiri brand, took place last November, with more than 90 professionals applying to take part. The aim of this competition was to promote the superior quality of Kiri cream cheese, and to allow Korean chefs...

Shall We Elect the President?

By Bala Murali Krishna Mon, May 07, 2012 7:16PM UTC View Comments

India may have run its course in tokenism as far as presidential choices are concerned. More than one Muslim has held the position as the country’s titular head; and a Sikh (Zail Singh), Dalit (K.R. Narayanan) and woman (incumbent Pratibha Patil) have each held the august office. Unless somebody comes up with a Christian or...

Chef Frédéric Lesourd Jury member at the 35th World Association of Chef Societies’ (WACS) Congress

By Le Cordon Bleu Australia Thu, May 03, 2012 2:10AM UTC View Comments

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Chef Frédéric Lesourd Jury member at the

35th World Association of Chef Societies’ Congress

Chef Frédéric Lesourd will participate in the 35th World Association of Chef Societies’ Congress, to be held in the city of Daejon, South Korea, from May 1 -5, 2012. This year, the theme of the Congress is “How to Feed the Planet in the Future”. A preview of the 2015 Milan Universal Exhibition thematic: “Feed the Planet, Energy for Life” Chef Lesourd, Chef instructor at Le Cordon Bleu Paris School, will be a jury member for the Daejon International competitions: the Young...

Death of reform in India: UPA has no right to simply give up

By Bala Murali Krishna Sun, Mar 18, 2012 9:32PM UTC View Comments

First there was poor governance. Now there is, shall we say, the death of reform. That has been the story of Manmohan Singh’s UPA-2. The budget, presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday, reinforces the latter point about reform and has been slammed by all and sundry. Parties have called it “anti-poor” and “status...

Acid test for India’s exit polls

By Bala Murali Krishna Mon, Mar 05, 2012 8:37PM UTC View Comments

Exit polls in India have been contentious in the past. Many times, they have proved to be wrong, even horribly wrong. It still doesn’t behoove diverse players in the democracy to simply trash the whole exercise and lend a sympathetic ear to nearly everybody else. The political class that expresses the greatest condemnation of the...