{"id":642818,"date":"2023-05-24T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=642818"},"modified":"2023-05-24T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:07:30","slug":"ust-kochi-centre-organizes-yummy-aid-2023-culinary-fest-for-a-noble-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/642818\/","title":{"rendered":"UST Kochi Centre Organizes Yummy Aid 2023; Culinary Fest for a Noble Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-642816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/yummyAid2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/>Kochi: UST Kochi recently hosted the highly anticipated \u2018UST Yummy Aid \u2013 The Culinary Fest for a Good Cause\u2019. This event was organized by UST&#8217;s Network of Women USsociates (NowU), an internal volunteer team dedicated to the development and executive mentoring of the company&#8217;s women employees. This annual culinary festival and fundraising event was aimed at tantalizing the taste buds while supporting charitable causes.<\/p>\n<p>The food festival and culinary contest witnessed participation from 14 teams who cooked and brought lip-smacking food from home and sold them at the UST Kochi office in Infopark. The fest showcased the culinary talents within the UST community while supporting charitable initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-642812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YummyAid.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/>The festival featured an array of exciting events, including competitions in categories such as &#8220;Best Charity Partner,&#8221; &#8220;Best Stall,&#8221; &#8220;Best Dish,&#8221; and the highly anticipated &#8220;Master Chef.&#8221; These categories provided participants with opportunities to display their culinary prowess and contribute to the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>The judges for the contest were Shantanu Seth, Executive Chef, Four Points by Sheraton, and food blogger Rahul N Kutty, Eat Kochi Eat. The judges gave away the prizes to the winners &#8211; Deepesh Chandran for \u2018Master Chef\u2019; Fish Pollichathu from Yum Lawn for \u2018Best Dish\u2019; Nosh for \u2018Best Stall\u2019 and Team Habibis for \u2018Best Charity Partner\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the event raised around Rs 80,000 which will be used towards various CSR initiatives for the underprivileged women and education of children. The festival exemplified UST&#8217;s commitment to corporate social responsibility and community engagement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-642814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/YummyAid1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kochi: UST Kochi recently hosted the highly anticipated \u2018UST Yummy Aid \u2013 The Culinary Fest for a Good Cause\u2019. This event was organized by UST&#8217;s Network of Women USsociates (NowU), an internal volunteer team dedicated to the development and executive mentoring of the company&#8217;s women employees. This annual culinary festival and fundraising event was aimed at tantalizing the taste buds while supporting charitable causes. The food festival and culinary contest witnessed participation from 14 teams who cooked and brought lip-smacking food from home and sold them at the UST Kochi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":642816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47744,47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642819,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642818\/revisions\/642819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}