Food festival starts today in BANGLADESH

A three-day British fusion food festival -- Taste of Britain Curry
Fest -- is set to start at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel today, which will
present the culinary success of British Bangladeshis in the UK.
Dhaka Sheraton Hotel and Curry Life, a British magazine on UK's
fusion food industry, are co- organising the festival. GM Quader,
civil aviation and tourism minister, is scheduled to inaugurate the
festival. "The festival will focus on the success of Bangladeshi
chefs in winning the appreciation of British people and the gradual
inclusion of our dishes in British cuisine," said Syed Belal Ahmed,
director of the festival. "The festival aims to create a fusion
between food from the east and the west." Ahmed was addressing a
press conference on the sixth British Fusion Food Festival.
"Presently, there are around 12,000 Bangladeshi restaurants in the UK.
Visitors to the festival will know how successfully Bangladeshi chefs
run the food business in Britain," said Ahmed. " The festival will
help enhance ties between Bangladesh and Britain." He also said there
are half a million Bangladeshis working in the culinary industry in
UK, while there is a dearth of skilled and efficient chefs
specialised in the eastern cuisine.