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{{short description|Indian chef based in New Delhi (born 1962)}}
[[File:Chef Machindra Kasture.jpg|thumb|Chef Machindra Kasture at The Ashok Hotel in New Delhi 2016.]]
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'''Machindra Kasture''' (born August 12, 1962) is an Indian chef based in [[New Delhi]]. He was the first chef for the [[President of India]] in the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]].<ref name="hindustan">{{cite news | first = Manoj | last = Sharma | title = The man who serves the taste of India to world's high and mighty | date = 22 September 2013 | url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/the-man-who-serves-the-taste-of-india-to-world-s-high-and-mighty/article1-1125481.aspx | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150709174940/http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/the-man-who-serves-the-taste-of-india-to-world-s-high-and-mighty/article1-1125481.aspx | url-status = dead | archive-date = 9 July 2015 | work = hindustantimes | accessdate = 2016-03-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/566284/appreciation-motivates-chef-do-better.html|title='Appreciation motivates a chef to do better'|website=Deccan Herald|date=22 August 2016|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> He is the recipient of Nation Tourism award for the Best Chef of India in 2016.<ref name="mumbaimessenger.com">{{Cite news|url=http://mumbaimessenger.com/maharshtras-machindra-kasture-is-national-award-winner-best-chef-of-india/|title=Maharshtra's Machindra Kasture Is National Award Winner 'Best Chef of India' - Mumbai Messenger - The Local Weekly Newspaper, Mumbai Local Newspaper, Local Newspaper of Mumbai|date=2016-08-03|newspaper=Mumbai Messenger - The Local Weekly Newspaper, Mumbai Local Newspaper, Local Newspaper of Mumbai|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>

Kasture started working in [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]] as Executive Chef in 2007 on deputation from ITDC. As chef to a [[head of state]], he was a member of [[Le Club des Chefs des Chefs]].<ref name=hindustan/> As the member of [[Le Club des Chefs des Chefs]] and as the executive chef to the President of India, he represented India, when he went to the United States where he met President [[Barack Obama]] at the [[White House]] and United Nations Secretary General [[Ban Ki-moon]] at the [[Headquarters of the United Nations|UN headquarters]] in 2013<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130730/jsp/frontpage/story_17173455.jsp#.VZkDrxuqqko |title=Mr President, sink your teeth into this |website=www.telegraphindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802105643/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130730/jsp/frontpage/story_17173455.jsp |archive-date=2013-08-02}} </ref> and [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] at a private visit to [[Buckingham Palace]] in London 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/chef-of-prez-to-attend-queen-elizabeth-event-114071701082_1.html|title=Chef of Prez to attend Queen Elizabeth event|newspaper=Business Standard India|date=17 July 2014|agency=Press Trust of India}}</ref>
Now he has been succeeded by Chef [[Montu Saini]].

==Early life and education==
[[File:Chef Kasture and His Wife.jpg|left|thumb|Chef Machindra Kasture with his wife Hemlata Kasture and Royal Chefs [[Mark Flanagan (chef)|Mark Flanagan]], Vice President of the C.C.C. accompagnies by Magnus Ake Rehbäck, the Chef of the King of Sweden in London 2014.]]
Kasture was born in [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]]. He did his Bachelor of Arts degree at Pune University and his Diploma in Hotel managementat [[Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai|Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology]], Mumbai in 1983.

He was inspired by his mother, who would often take him to vegetable and grocery shopping.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/president-pranab-mukherjee-chef-rashtrapati-bhavan-kitchen-best-chef-caviar-2954211/|title=Fit for the President|date=2016-08-05|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sakaaltimes.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=5540336767733993002&SectionId=5131376722999570563&SectionName=Features&NewsDate=20160822&NewsTitle=The%20culinary%20wizard&fromNewsdog=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127222524/http://sakaaltimes.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=5540336767733993002&SectionId=5131376722999570563&SectionName=Features&NewsDate=20160822&NewsTitle=The%20culinary%20wizard&fromNewsdog=1|url-status=usurped|archive-date=27 November 2016|title=The culinary wizard {{!}} Sakal Times|website=sakaaltimes.com|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> Machindra Kasture is married to Hemlata Kasture who is a Marathi Newsreader in Aakashwani.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/the-chef-of-the-vvips/article8949325.ece|title = The chef of the VVIPs|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 5 August 2016}}</ref>

== Career ==
He started his hospitality journey with Centaur Hotel Juhu Beach Mumbai, Flight Kitchen Mumbai, Centaur Lake View Hotel, Srinagar, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and Hotel Ashok I.T.D.C, New Delhi, Patna, Aurangabad.

In 2007, he received a call from Rashtrapati Bhavan. After passing various tests he joined the President's House as an Executive Chef. In his 8-year tenure in Rashtrapati Bhavan. He has served two president's Smt. [[Pratibha Patil]] and Sri [[Pranab Mukherjee]].

He plans and executes menus for state banquets, high teas and luncheons at which the President of India hosts his counterparts and other VIPs from India and abroad. While he specializes in dishing out cuisines from around the world; he also has its own signature dishes, which includes Pineapple Halwa, Sitafal ka Halwa, Mutton Raan, Raisina Dal (whole urad dal), Achari paneer and Anjeer Kofta.<ref name="hindustan" /> Busiest days of the year are of state banquets and various ceremonies, including the swearing-in, award functions, etc. But the real challenge, he said, are on days such August 15 and January 26, when the President organises At Home, which is attended by around 1,500 people.<ref name="hindustan" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://daily.bhaskar.com/news/LIF-LOV-rashtrapati-bhavan-kitchen-5451253-PHO.html?seq=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128050724/http://daily.bhaskar.com/news/LIF-LOV-rashtrapati-bhavan-kitchen-5451253-PHO.html?seq=3|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 November 2016|title=From Galouti Kebab to Crispy Tiny Jalebis, What Do They Serve the President at the Rashtrapati Bhavan?|date=2016-11-02|newspaper=DailyBhaskar|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>

For eight years, Kasture has cooked for some of the highest dignitaries of the world including [[Pranab Mukherjee]], [[Rahul Gandhi]], [[Sonia Gandhi]], [[Narendra Modi]], [[Hamid Karzai]], King [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]] and [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1141009/jsp/frontpage/story_18908478.jsp#.WDqbauZ97cs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009003855/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1141009/jsp/frontpage/story_18908478.jsp#.WDqbauZ97cs|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 2014|title=Meatier than Obama's plate|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/kadhi-trout-sondesh-on-prez-banquet-menu-for-obama/story-gBakQnHDpptsR24wirpfWI.html|title=Kadhi, trout, sondesh on Prez banquet menu for Obama|date=2015-01-24|newspaper=www.hindustantimes.com|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>

== Charity ==
As a member of [[Le Club des Chefs des Chefs]] Kasture has cooked for charity as a partnership between the [[InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel]] and the [[St. Francis Xavier Mission]] in Chelsea invited the Le Club de Chefs de Chefs (the governing organization for chefs to Heads of States) to feed the hungry in [[New York City]]. 21 chefs in total cooked and served a menu with the theme "Fit for Royalty",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.metro.us/newyork/events/fit-for-royalty/|title=Events – Metro|website=metro.us|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> designed around comfort food from the world's first families. Approximately 200 people from the community came out to fill up what was surely one of the better meals they've eaten at a soup kitchen in 2013.
[[File:Machindra Kasture Live Demo.jpg|left|thumb|Chef Kasture at International Food Festival in Veracruz Mexico.]]
In 2015, he cooked at the site called Refectory Ambrosiano for Caritas Ambrosiana which is an association that collects the food which is not used in the restaurants of the EXPO Milano 2015 to feed homeless or poor people in a special refectory in [[Milan]], [[Italy]] at Expo Milano 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://expoblogcaritas.com/2015/07/20/club-chefs-des-chefs-refettorio-ambrosiano/|title=Gli chef dei Capi di Stato: "Come in famiglia, combattiamo lo spreco"|last=l'ExpoBlog|date=2015-07-20|website=Caritas in Expo|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>

== Media and books ==
Machindra Kasture's recipes are part of The coffee table book "Around India's First Table: Dining and Entertaining at the Rashtrapati Bhavan" which is being put together by [[Lizzie Collingham]] of the University of Warwick, bestselling author of Curry: A Biography, and author of The Emperor's Table, Salma Hussain.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/columns/mumbai-001/Sister-act/articleshow/46205752.cms|title=Sister act - Mumbai Mirror -|newspaper=Mumbai Mirror|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-a-qa-with-elizabeth-collingham-author-of-around-india-s-first-table-dining-and-entertaining-at-the-rashtrapati-bhavan-2235241|title=A Q&A with Elizabeth Collingham, author of "Around India's First Table: Dining and Entertaining at the Rashtrapati Bhavan" {{!}} Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis|date=2016-07-17|newspaper=dna|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/hindi/india-38070798|title=राष्ट्रपति भवन का शाही ज़ायका और कूटनीति की बातें|last=फ़ज़ल|first=रेहान|date=2016-11-24|newspaper=BBC हिंदी|language=hi|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>

== Awards ==
National Tourism award for Best Chef of India in 2016.<ref name="mumbaimessenger.com"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/the-chef-of-the-vvips/article8949325.ece|title=The chef of the VVIPs|last=Kumar|first=Anuj|date=2016-08-05|newspaper=The Hindu|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X|access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* https://twitter.com/chefkasture
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLyWCLE8AE
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmHNAPsS8-I
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mip9sRZ5-ig&t=3s
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwNGbd814Qo

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