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Tipu
Rahman, owner of Tamarind Restaurant scored a double triumph on
Friday to win the International Indian Chef of the Year 2009 title
against extremely tough competition from other expert cooks .
In addition to the winner's
£1000 prize, Tipu also walked off with the £250 Lady Fraser
Prize for the best vegetarian dish.
The finalists, chosen for the
excellence of their menus for a four-dish meal, had two-and-a-half
hours to cook their ideal meal in the training kitchens of
Edinburgh's Telford College and present it to table for judges to taste.
Judges monitored the cooking and
sampled all the dishes before reaching their verdict.
Lord Fraser said the contest
regularly attracted outstanding cooks and he said he was delighted
that this year there had been more emphasis on the actual taste of
the dishes, rather than on presentation. This was, presumably, not
the case in previous years.
Second place went to Vivek
Kashiwale, of the Bird by Vineet restaurant in Leeds.
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