International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8. The idea of
celebrating this day is for recognizing the importance of women’s role in the
society. It is an occasion to review how far they have come in their struggle
for equality, peace and development. It is also an opportunity to unite,
network and mobilize for meaningful change.
And I got opportunity to unite and network with women this week
end when I got an invitation from Rushina to attend her Tea party at her
studio.
All I could feel was thrill, thrill, thrill!
At 4pm I arrived with my friend at APB cook studio. I am always impressed at this cook studio that has a large kitchen with 6 working stations. Plus
there are shelves of products on sale that include sauces, jams and other food
items, there are also food magazines and other interesting kitchen articles
like apron, kitchen clocks that we may not find at other places.
The room was filled with beautiful well-dressed ladies, all with their smart phone, ready to click the event. There was ample food and drinks to pamper the taste buds. There were bite size desserts from ‘Icing on Top’, mini cakes from ‘Piccoli Tortini’, sauces from ‘i2cook’ , wine from ‘Fratelli wines’, tea from ‘tea Trunk’. The evening was all about networking, sharing of ideas and communicating. I had an interesting conversation with Meeta who updated me on healthy eating.
The evening was packed with activities like sharing the skills
and demonstration of recipes.
Akshola Honawar of ‘Runal Salon’ educated us on hair care telling us the importance of massage and spa.
This was followed by the reading of a book “Escape from Harem’
by Tanushree Poddar.
Next there was a discussion on adding prunes to our regular diet
followed by demonstration of recipes with prune by Harsha Sabnani
Rushina demonstrated the recipe of stuffed mushrooms and chicken
in orange juice and wine, which was tangy and sweet, an interesting combination.
The evening was lovely, made lots of new friends and yes, not to
forget the gift hamper that had peanut butter, pitted prunes, a test tube
bottle of tea leaves, fig jam and spicy Paan masala
