CaLDRON February 2014 - Valentine's Day Special | Page 66

LOVE

Did you forget to make
dinner reservations at
your darling’s favorite
restaurant this Valentine’s
Day? Are you lacking
inspiration on how to
impress your parner?
Why not cook up a
meal that will blow
their minds away? Our
experts advise you how
to create a stress-free
fancy meal that will have
your Valentine asking for
more.

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Audrey Pravata, Head Chef of Maybury in Dubai

A FEAST CALLED

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is not setting on which legendary
love stories are built! So why not
ulia Child once stated, “I think
rekindle your romance by cooking
careful cooking is love, don't
a meal for your beloved and enyou? The loveliest thing you can
joying it in the intimate setting of
cook for someone who is close to
your home, where you have eyes
you is about as nicest Valentine you
only for each other? It need not be
can give.” When the woman who
something fanciful, but who said
is often regarded as America’s first
you can’t give a celebratory and inlady of cooking says something so
dulgent spin to a classic meal? Even
candidly, one cannot help but take
chefs who toss up delectable meals
her words seriously.
for you on Valentine’s Day prefer
Making dinner reservations at a
dining in with their loved ones
fancy restaurant to celebrate your
rather than eating in a restaurant.
love is passé. After all, you will be
in a sea of diners in an over-packed
Chef Varun Inamdar, Chocolatier
restaurant trying to whisper sweet
at Chocolate Factory explains this
nothings, while being constantsuccinctly when he says, “When it
ly disturbed by over-enthusiastic
comes to surprising a loved one and
stewards and servers. Surely, this
showing how much you care,
CaLDRON February 2014