Top honchos dish out their stress-busting meal

For once, CEOs weren't sweating it out in the boardroom. Early this month, several top bosses from different sectors donned their chef hats for a fundraiser organised by Genesis Foundation in Gurgaon. The spread was eclectic — from hearty Indian fare to global cuisines.

For the executives , cooking seemed a far cry from the anxieties of running a business. Suresh Narayanan, Chairman, Nestle India, cooked dosas. He says, "Cooking for me is a stressbuster sometimes. I could not afford to eat out on a regular basis, so I had to learn my way around the kitchen. I cooked dosas because I'm south Indian and I have yet to meet an Indian who does not like a dosa."

Manisha Sood, Country GM, Fitbit, made dosas too — but they were non-vegetarian. "I started cooking out of necessity as I was the eldest of four daughters and had a working mom," she says.



Suresh Narayanan, Chairman, Nestle (Image: BCCL)

Some chefs made bigger statements like Suman Bose, MD India, Siemens Industry Software India, who cooked Japanese food. He says, "I have never cooked Japanese cuisine in my life. I hope everyone liked it."



Suman Bose, MD India, Siemens (Image: Agencies)

Bose's kitchen skills were honed by his mother and aunt. He says, "But I took to cooking seriously 15 years ago when I was living alone. I have been doing so ever since."