When Soggy Papayas For Indira Gandhi Sparked Panic In Hotel: Book
NDTV
It was November 1983 and the late Indira Gandhi was hosting high-profile leaders from more than 40 countries for a 48-hour retreat.
The papayas from Mumbai were too squishy, the chef raced through the streets of Goa in a police jeep to look for fruit ripened just right only to have security personnel puncture many a hole through them... a new book recalls in detail the struggle to procure and plate perfect papayas for Indira Gandhi during a CHOGM meeting in 1983.
The then prime minister's demand for the humble papaya for breakfast during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting retreat sent the entire Taj Hotel into a tizzy, chef Satish Arora recounts in his book "Sweets and Bitters: Tales from a Chef's Life".
It was a "uniquely Indian, very local" battle that he and his team at Taj Goa were fighting, Mr Arora writes.
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