Poet and Chef – Abhishek Gupta

Creativity is sans borders, encompassing unusual realms. For instance take the plating at a restaurant, where Chefs have taken the culinary craft beyond the masala box and secret recipes. Each plate is a work of art, an installation where the medium is of the edible variety.

Juggling the emotions of an artist and the panache of a magician who caters to the primary most evocative sensory experience – food, is Chef Abhishek Gupta, who is also a poet. So deep is his involvement with his dishes, that he describes them in short verses on the menu.

Many a poets have gone lyrical over their dinner or kitchen garden. Virgil, the ancient Roman poet (70 BC – 19 BC), penned an ode to his‘Salads’. But Chef Abhishek’s work is reminiscent of Haiku, such as the one by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

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