Chennai’s Chef Damu gets a lifetime achievement award in London
The Hindu
Chef Damu is the first recipient of the prestigious award instituted by World Tamil Organisation, U.K.
Chef K. Damodaran, affectionately known as Chef Damu, is characteristically warm and chatty, despite being in a London taxi en route to the airport. On his way home to Chennai, undeterred by airport lounges and transfers, the popular TV show host and cook book author, enthusiastically chats on the phone about his latest triumph: The Culinary Legend Lifetime Achievement Award at the Global Food, Hospitality and Tourism Achievements Award 2021.
It is this unflagging enthusiasm that has kept him focused and driven for the past 40 years in an extraordinary career, which was celebrated at a recent event organized at the House of Commons, British Parliament, Westminster, on November 5.
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