Cooking competition for Kolkata

Sugar & Spice is a wonderful cooking competition& open to all ages and all levels of experience in aid of the very excellent Cork-based Hope Foundation charity, which works with deprived street children in Kolkata, India.

To enter, simply register in advance by email and then bring along a cooked dish (made from sugar or spice or both!) to the Bakestone Café, in Ballyseedy Garden Centre (May 4), Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, where judging shall be conducted by Lilly Higgins (author of Dream Deli), patissier Christine Girault (La Spoon), chef Gautham Iyer (Iyer’s Café), chef Ali Honour (Bakestone Café, Ballyseedy Garden Centre) and The Menu himself. There’ll be all manner of entertainment and child-friendly high jinks on the day and winners will earn exclusive culinary lessons from each of the judges to take place in Brennan’s Cookshop & Cookery School. www.eat4streetkids.com

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