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MONDAY, OCTOBER <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
DT<br />
Showtime<br />
WHAT TO WATCH<br />
The Hobbit: The Battle of the<br />
Five Armies<br />
HBO, 8:30 PM<br />
Thorin Oakenshield and the<br />
Company of Dwarves. Having<br />
reclaimed their homeland<br />
from the Dragon Smaug, has<br />
unwittingly unleashed a deadly<br />
force into the world. Enraged,<br />
Smaug rains his wrath down<br />
upon the defenseless men,<br />
women and children of Laketown.<br />
Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian<br />
McKellen, Luke Evans,<br />
Benedict Cumberbatch<br />
Fantastic Four<br />
Star Movies, 4:37 PM<br />
Keka Ferdousi:<br />
Cooking is<br />
not easy<br />
• Hasan Dabir Uddin<br />
Keka Ferdousi, one of the most<br />
prominent faces of the country<br />
who has been presenting culinary<br />
shows on TV for more than three<br />
decades now, has a reputation<br />
of offering innovative recipes to<br />
her audience. Born to famous<br />
parents, Fazlul Haq, a journalist<br />
and director, and Rabeya Khatun,<br />
a novelist, Ferdousi started<br />
her TV career back in 1984.<br />
She received the Gourmand<br />
World Cookbook Awards for her<br />
book, Sastho Sacheton Ranna.<br />
Showtime recently sat with the<br />
culinary artist to learn her side<br />
of the stories behind the exciting<br />
recipes she comes up with on her<br />
TV shows.<br />
When did you first start cooking?<br />
I have been cooking since I was<br />
in class five. I used to help my<br />
parents while cooking, especially<br />
my father who has the talent to<br />
make any dish delicious. I ended<br />
up learning to cook various dishes<br />
during that period.<br />
Do you think it’s important for<br />
parents to teach their children<br />
how to cook?<br />
I think kids learn by example, so<br />
showing them that the kitchen<br />
isn’t a terrifying place should be<br />
taught from an early age. I love to<br />
teach others. If the government<br />
helps to run a project for teaching<br />
school kids how to prepare their<br />
breakfast, I will gladly work with<br />
them.<br />
Do you think it is possible to<br />
learn the art of cooking by<br />
watching culinary TV shows?<br />
Cooking isn’t easy. In order to<br />
become a good cook, one has to<br />
possess certain skills like being<br />
economical, understanding<br />
different food types,<br />
measurement and finally, being<br />
organised.<br />
How many culinary books have<br />
you written till date? Do any of<br />
the recipes have stories behind<br />
them? Could you tell us about<br />
one?<br />
You’ll find six culinary books of<br />
mine in bookstores and a lot of<br />
DVDs featuring my TV shows.<br />
It was my culinary TV shows<br />
which were recorded in the form<br />
of cassettes for the first time in<br />
the country. Most of the recipes<br />
in the books have a story or a<br />
memory behind it. When I lived<br />
abroad, I learned a lot of recipes<br />
from different cuisines of foreign<br />
lands. I’ve learnt a lot form rural<br />
women in our country too.<br />
When was your first TV show<br />
aired?<br />
In 1994, I cooked a mushroom<br />
recipe in Shykh Seraj’s Mati o<br />
Manush on BTV. Afterwards, I<br />
worked in various TV programs.<br />
I can remember some of them<br />
-- Monohor Ifftar, Amader Kotha,<br />
Desh Bidesh er Ranna and others.<br />
Where do you find inspiration<br />
for new dishes? How do you<br />
deal with the backlash on your<br />
experiments?<br />
I love to experiment without<br />
making the recipe difficult to<br />
follow. It’s funny because I think<br />
those who tend to have negative<br />
comments about my recipes<br />
have never tried out the recipes<br />
at all. It does not concern me, I<br />
just like to ignore them. I think,<br />
these days, more people are<br />
willing to try out new recipes.<br />
New ingredients and innovative<br />
methods of cooking are being<br />
discovered every day. All I have to<br />
do is keep up.<br />
How do you develop interesting<br />
recipes, do you test them on<br />
anyone?<br />
When I am developing a new<br />
recipe, I tend to focus on the<br />
nutrition value of the food, the<br />
availability of ingredients and<br />
price. Whenever I develop one at<br />
home, I ask my family members<br />
to taste the dish. I know that they<br />
always provide an honest opinion<br />
on my experiments.<br />
What is Keka Ferdousi’s favourite<br />
dish?<br />
I’ve tasted food from all around<br />
the world but I still prefer local<br />
dishes.•<br />
Reed is a scientist and he is<br />
convinced that evolution can<br />
happen by clouds of cosmic<br />
energy. He believes that the<br />
earth is going to pass one of<br />
those clouds soon. Along with<br />
his friend Ben, Reed convinces<br />
Dr Victor Von Doom to let them<br />
access his private space station.<br />
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica<br />
Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris<br />
Evans<br />
Predator<br />
Star Movies HD,11:55 PM<br />
Dutch and his commando team<br />
are assigned a task by the CIA –<br />
to rescue downed airmen from<br />
a jungle in Central America.<br />
Dutch and his men complete<br />
the mission successfully and<br />
are on their way back when<br />
they realise that they are being<br />
hunted.<br />
Cast:Arnold Schwarzenegger,<br />
Carl Weathers
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