in this cause anjali batra of popular food platform food talk india says she has lined up workshops with chefs on sustainability and lost cuisines along with holding talks on setting up startups or building new businesses she feels such sessions are a good way for people to invest in skill development and contribute to charity at the same time batras next workshop is on food styling and photography with the open art project priced at rs 2000 per head batra says they request people to pay directly to ngos such as give india share a screenshot and receive an email link to join the session for young chefs such as sambhavi joshi of caserecce a handmade pasta brand these sessions are not just a fundraiser but also a learning experience joshi who had 35 people pay for her session says all of them were active participants who asked a lot of questions and wanted to learn about healthy cooking a session that was to be for an hour went on for over two hours and people had a lot of questions especially about local flours that are easily available it was encouraging to see people shift focus to local produce she said adding that being able to raise rs 35000 for covid relief through her cooking skills was quite satisfying