Cooking lessons for our guests at Chitvan, Kanha

Our Chef Manjay, keeps himself occupied not only by cooking himself but also ensuring that guests for whom he cooks also learn how their dishes are prepared. Every evening, religiously, atleast one dish is prepared live in front of the guests in our kitchen, wherein the guests come into our kitchen yearning to learn the delicious recipes of what they are eating in Chitvan, Kanha. Whether it is the "Salforest Sandwich", or the "Kanha Kebabs", or "Safari Biryani", or "Kanha Kulfi", your taste buds will be treated like never before by our Chef. You will see guests in our kitchen with our Chef in practically all meals.

Zeer Pots at Chitvan, Kanha

Zeer pot, is actually two unglazed earthenware pots, one pot smaller then the other. The smaller pot is put inside the bigger one, the space in between is filled with sand, the sand is made wet with water, twice a day, and a wet cloth is put on top of the pots to keep off the warm air from entering the pots. In this way, fresh produce can be kept for long periods of time without the need for electricity, refrigerators or camping coolers made high embodied energy. Eggplants will keep good upto 27 days instead of three. The zeer keeps our water (and other liquid beverages) at about 15 degrees Celsius. This has reduced our consuption of elctricity to a considerable extent in the kitchen for storage purposes. So our efforts to combat global warming continue in small little ways.